Unemployment and welfare in Sweden

Description

Part 1: Unemployment and Welfare: Cause and Impact Analyze

Instructions: In this task, you are going to work with our welfare (Sweden’s) system and unemployment, which is one of our welfare problems.

a) Start by explaining the causes of unemployment.
Proceed from Swedish conditions and start from a societal perspective. Remember to problematize the reasons you give.

b) Then explain what the consequences of unemployment can be. Remember to proceed both from the individual’s perspective and from a societal perspective.

c) Then explain what measures can be put in place to solve the causes and consequences of unemployment.

NOTE! Start/Proceed from Swedish conditions.

Part 2: The welfare model and unemployment

Our welfare is also built on different models of society. In Sweden, there are the three models: the Basic Security Principle (Grundtrygghetsprincipen) the Needs Assessment Model (Behovsprövingsprincipen) and the Income Loss Principle (Inkomstbortfallsprincipen).

2a) Then explain in what way unemployment affects the different welfare models (the Basic Security Principle, the Needs Assessment Model and the Income Loss Principle). What solutions are there?

Part 3: List of sources
Here you enter the sources you have worked with in a list of sources.

Part 4: Source-critical analysis

Select two sources that you have worked with in the assignment. Make a source-critical analysis of these sources. In the analysis, you start from the concepts of proximity, tendency and dependence. Reason about the reliability and relevance of the sources. Be sure to draw conclusions and explain how you came to these conclusions.

In order to ger an A you should: You can analyze societal issues and identify several causes and consequences. You discuss in detail and nuanced the causes and consequences as well as possible solutions to societal issues.

In the work with societal issues, you can certainly search, review and interpret information from various sources, report your sources and make well-founded and nuanced reflections on their relevance and credibility based on the purpose.

You can with certainty and in a structured way express your knowledge of social studies in different forms of presentation and formulate yourself independently in relation to the sources.

Please use simple language. Not an advanced language. Try to make the text coherent.
Use as many sources as you need.