Labour Market Training in Sweden — A Reflection of Swedish Society

Training in the Swedish labour market started on a small scale just after the Second World War and increased considerably during the 1958 recession. Since the second half of the 60s, such training activities again expanded rapidly, with the number of trainees who completed their training growing from 40,000 in the fiscal year 1964/65 to 143,000 during 1972/73. After a fall in trainee numbers came an even sharper rise, when training subsidies were extensively allocated to corporations in an attempt to stem the tide of redundancies (245,000 trained during 1977/78). Subsequently, the overall trend was downwards, with 128,313 trained in 1983/84.