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Fredrik Söderqvist

@soderqvist.bsky.social
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Economist Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO-SE), PhD.

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ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work (Digit) @digitcentre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
AI is transforming work, but too often it’s happening to workers, not with them. From surveillance to work intensification, hear why unions and Digit researchers at #TUC2026 are calling for worker voice to come first in workplace AI decisions. Learn more: digit-research.org/news/negotia...
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Marcus Larsson @skolinkvisition.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
”Information om inlärningstakt, eventuella svårigheter, sjukdomar, frånvaro, lärarnas bedömningar och allt annat som finns i systemen kommer kunna användas av tech-företagen i kommersiellt syfte.” Säger ju det. Vi lärare måste mobilisera motstånd mot AI bolagen. www.vilarare.se/nyheter/ai/e...
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EU-larm: AI-företag kan få övervaka svenska lärare
Techbolagen kan få tillgång till lärares och elevers prestationer, svagheter, frånvaro, bedömningar och allt annat som finns i dagens it-system på skolorna.<br />Det hävdar lärarfackens europiska orga...
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The Economic Journal @theeconjournal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In the current issue: ‘Employer Market Power in Silicon Valley’ by Matthew D Gibson doi.org/10.1093/ej/u... @resmedia.bsky.social @williamseconomics.bsky.social @upjohninstitute.bsky.social #EconSky
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German Bender @germanbender.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Intresserad av AI och arbetsmarknaden? Den 2 okt ska jag vara med på ett boksamtal (irl) med den prisbelönta journalisten Sarah O’Connor på Financial Times, om hennes uppmärksammade bok "We Are Not Machines". Läs mer och anmäl dig via länken – och sprida gärna inbjudan! arenaide.se/kalender/ai-...
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AI och framtidens arbetsliv - Arena Idé
Med Sarah O'Connor
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Torbjörn Dalin @dalinutanh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Det är som @danielswedin.bsky.social skriver, ett partis uppgift är inte bara ”att avläsa opinionen utan att förändra den”. 🤷‍♂️ arbetet.se/2026/09/14/d...
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Socialdemokraterna vågade inte strida för sina reformer
Kan det ha kostat Magdalena Andersson regeringsmakten?
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's always the way, isn't it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Graph shows far right support higher where the number of foreign nationals is lowest
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German Bender @germanbender.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Den 12 november är det dags för Arena Idés och den fackliga produktivitetskommissionens årliga konferens. I år ligger fokus på makt och AI, med två internationella toppnamn som keynotes, bla Richard B Freeman vid Harvard. Mer info & anmälan dig via länken, haffa en plats! arenaide.se/kalender/kon...
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Teknik och makt: Utmaningar för moderna arbetsmarknader - Arena Idé
Vem får makten över morgondagens arbetsmarknad – och hur påverkar det produktivitet, sysselsättning och jämlikhet?
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 06/09/2026
Ladies and gentlemen, the Prime Minister of Sweden 🇸🇪
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Upjohn Institute @upjohninstitute.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
More available jobs tend to raise wages, but do strong labor markets improve job quality, too? A new study by @bradhershbein.bsky.sociall Katherine Lim, @dougwebberecon.bsky.social and Mike Zabek finds they do—and not just because more workers change jobs. bit.ly/4gJcoSs
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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Very proud of this piece (forthcoming in JEL). It took years to write and edit. But happy of the final outcome, and even happier to see how the literature grew even as we were reviewing it!
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eric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
AI effects on students all in one set of figures. Makes homework super easy and fast. Make brane not think gud.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 17/08/2026
Monopsony Makes It Big by an all-star roster: @sydneecaldwell.bsky.social @arindube.bsky.social & Suresh Naidu #EconSky www.nber.org/papers/w3560...
Monopsony Makes it Big
Sydnee Caldwell, Arindrajit Dube & Suresh Naidu
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Working Paper 35608
DOI 10.3386/w35608
Issue Date August 2026
The literature on imperfect competition in labor markets has expanded rapidly in recent years. This article provides a guide to the field, focusing on the firm-specific ("residual") labor supply elasticity as the definition of a firm's labor market power. We present a general framework showing how this elasticity nests the three widely studied sources of monopsony power: search frictions, preference heterogeneity, and employer concentration. We summarize the empirical estimates of the elasticity of labor supply, highlighting sources of possible heterogeneity. We emphasize that it is difficult to infer elasticities from markdowns (and vice versa) due to the diversity of firm wage-setting practices, illustrating this point using the interaction between monopsony and efficiency wages. We discuss how policy issues in antitrust, labor market regulation, immigration, and macroeconomics interact with monopsony and conclude by listing several areas for future research
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Fredrik Söderqvist @soderqvist.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Det finns en annan skatt som kan åtgärda problemet
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German Bender @germanbender.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Jag har skrivit många analytiska texter om Teslastrejken de senaste åren, där jag förklarar vad jag tänker. Här är en intervju där jag pratar lite mer om vad jag känner. da.se/2026/08/tesl...
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Teslaförfattaren: ”Musk vinner igen, sorgligt att se”
✓IF Metall misslyckades med att få Tesla att teckna kollektivavtal. Vad det innebär för den svenska modellen får tiden utvisa – men nu finns viktiga saker att följa, säger författaren och arbetsmarkan...
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Fredrik Söderqvist @soderqvist.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Högre ersättning i a-kassan gör arbetstagare mer benägna att ta mer riskfyllda jobb, men där produktiviteten kan vara högre enl nytt NBER-working paper. Generös a-kassa kan vara produktivitetsdrivande genom flera kanaler.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 10/08/2026
Looks like a great paper: "... highlight a new role for unemployment insurance: it encourages employed workers to accept risky but high-productivity offers, thereby increasing productivity (by 1.3%) and job creation—as well as job loss and unemployment." #EconSky www.nber.org/system/files...
Cautious Careers: Job Mobility under Incomplete Markets
Alex Clymo, Piotr Denderski, Yusuf Mercan, and Benjamin Schoefer
NBER Working Paper No. 35580
August 2026
JEL No. E24, H20, J2, J62, J64
ABSTRACT
Job mobility is risky, workers are risk averse, and insurance markets are incomplete. This paper
studies how these features curb and distort job-to-job transitions by making workers excessively
cautious: they place too much weight on job safety over wage and productivity gains. We
demonstrate this tradeoff by eliciting employed workers’ wage-safety indifference curves in a
custom, representative survey. On average, employed US workers require a 1.63% pay raise to
accept each additional percentage point of annual unemployment risk in a new job. We assess the
macroeconomic consequences of our mechanism by embedding it into a general equilibrium search
model. Jobs differ in both wages (productivity) and unemployment risk, and risk-averse workers
self-insure against unemployment risk through a non-state-contingent bond while searching on and
off the job. We find that a complete markets counterfactual would boost job mobility by 12% and
productivity by 0.19%. We also highlight a new role for unemployment insurance: it encourages
employed workers to accept risky but high-productivity offers, thereby increasing productivity (by
1.3%) and job creation—as well as job loss and unemployment.
Alex Clymo
Paris School of Economics
alex.clymo@psemail.eu
Piotr Denderski
University of Leicester
and Institute of Economics,
Polish Academy of Sciences
piotr.denderski@leicester.ac.uk
Yusuf Mercan
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
aymmercan9@gmail.com
Benjamin Schoefer
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Economics
and NBER
schoefer@berkeley.edu
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NBER @nber.org · 08/08/2026
Studying jobs in which workers value both producing useful output and knowing that output depends on their own contribution, from @joshgans.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35559
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Anders Lindberg @andersl.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Statsministerns försvar av Richard Jomshof är skitsnack. M, KD, L och SD lägger skulden mig för att Richard Jomshof kallar mig landsförrädare. Det är för ynkligt. Jag svarar direkt.
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NBER @nber.org · 02/08/2026
Tax avoidance through personal holding companies in Sweden and Norway shelters 50 percent of dividend income from taxation, leading to a sharp drop-off in effective tax rates at the top, from Marius A. K. Ring, David G. Seim, and Gabriel Zucman www.nber.org/papers/w35534
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Daniel Swedin @danielswedin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
In Sweden, the Migration Minister argues that the country's Social Democratic opposition leader is partly responsible for the situation in Ceuta, because she recently visited Sanchez…
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Nate Spilman @natespilman.at · 23/07/2026
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I tell Claude to do a breakthrough, and it thinks about resisting the urge to make up a breakthrough
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Noncompete clauses reduce workers' earnings. Noncompete clauses also provide no measurable protection against trade-secrets being leaked beyond standard NDAs.
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Scott @scottydo16.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Niklas Blomqvist @blmqvst.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Folk som skiter i kontext och ogillar vänsterpolitik: "Skatter/facken gjorde tillväxten svag på 70- och 80-talen." Kontexten: "Sverige vid [olje]krisens utbrott [1973] var det mest oljeberoende landet per capita i Västeuropa." www.dn.se/debatt/lands...
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DN Debatt. ”Landsbygden kan lika gärna vara motorn i omställningen”
DN Debatt. Framställs som dömd till bilen och bensinen. Men det skulle kunna vara precis tvärtom, skriver Erland Mårald, professor i idéhistoria.
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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The hype that wasn't ... How AI leaders are rapidly changing their tune. (from the WSJ) Link: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-w...
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
It's a healthcare economy.
Line chart titled "Effectively all of the net job creation has been in healthcare and social assistance, and jobs are shrinking in the rest of the economy" showing change in employment since January 2025 through June 2026. Healthcare and social assistance added 945,900 jobs over this 18-month period, representing nearly all net job creation, while the rest of the economy lost 229,900 jobs. The healthcare sector grew consistently throughout the period, while other sectors experienced steep declines bottoming at 535,600 jobs lost in February 2026 before partially recovering, illustrating an unusually concentrated labor market where job growth exists almost exclusively in healthcare.
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NBER @nber.org · 27/06/2026
Higher wage floors due to minimum wage increases or repeal of subminimum wages do not appear to have disproportionate impacts on workers with disabilities, from Roisin O'Neill, Shailee Manandhar, and Douglas L. Kruse www.nber.org/papers/w35368
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Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com · 21/06/2026
BBC article about Brian Ripley of the #RStats Core team given this week's excellent news concerning 2026 Rousseeuw Price for Statistics recognition for him and the core team. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Prof Brian Ripley on developing R to manage the world's data
Prof Brian Ripley has spent the past three decades working on a computer software that analyses data.
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Niklas Orrenius @niklasorrenius.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
"Det är ett tecken i tiden: Skjut på budbäraren. Och inte bara det. Sikta gärna på den enskilda journalisten, så att hennes trovärdighet angrips maximalt. Ett förslag till nästa gång: blanda inte privat och offentligt. Och angrip bristerna, inte den som avtäcker dem." www.dn.se/ledare/peter...
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Peter Wolodarski: Ska man wallraffa i statsministerns sovrum?
Säkerheten kring Ulf Kristersson har allvarliga brister. Ändå attackeras journalisten som avslöjade dem. Det är ett dåligt tecken i tiden.
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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Trump take wages.
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Very interesting @jburnmurdoch.ft.com piece this morning - how much value AI is creating is exactly the right question. The evidence from coders here suggests it’s so far creating a lot of extra output - 290% more files, 30% more software releases - but no extra valuable outputs (app downloads)
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How much value is AI really creating?
Eye-opening changes to the speed and volume of work are not always translating into genuine productivity
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Fredrik Söderqvist @soderqvist.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Viktigt working paper från IFAU om lönepremien och yrkessammansättningen. Den kanske viktigaste slutsatsen, markerad i gult, slår hål i den seglivade myten att lönebildningen skulle försämra resursallokeringen i nya yrken och branscher genom att minska lönespridningen. www.ifau.se/Forskning/Pu...
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Jonas Vlachos @jonasvlachos.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Upprörande, men verkligen inget nytt. Så här såg det enligt Skolverkets genomlysningar ut för 15 år sedan också men landets journalister verkar inte ha varit så intresserade. www.sydsvenskan.se/malmo/el-ele...
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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
A deep dive into living standards and inequality comparing Sweden and US, focusing on redistribution vs predistribution, and a bonus on use of price indices and PPP and what difference it makes! Link: next post
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Max Jerneck @maxjerneck.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I had the great pleasure of talking to @arindube.bsky.social about his book The Wage Standard, and the question of how to raise wages youtu.be/0Tfmc4unjxQ?...
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How do we raise wages?
YouTube video by Katalys
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Nils Redeker @nilsredeker.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Fantastic new OECD data comparing international subsidies in key sectors. "For Chinese firms, almost 60% of their global market share gains can be explained by the subsidies received." Worth keeping in mind when people insist Europe’s competitiveness problem is mainly about overregulation.
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Jonas Vlachos @jonasvlachos.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Ny studie av kollegorna!
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Ulrika Lorentzi @ulrikalorentzi.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I senaste Agendapartiledardebatten var privata sjukvårdsförsäkringar en fråga och C och M hävdade att försäkringarna avlastar den offentliga vården. Ny forskning visar att försäkringarna tvärtom leder till mer vårdkonsumtion inom den offentliga vården. www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...
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Ny studie: Felaktigt att sjukvårdsförsäkringar avlastar vården
Ett vanligt argument i debatten om privata sjukvårdsförsäkringar är att de avlastar den offentliga vården, eftersom fler patienter söker sig till privata vårdgivare. Men nu visar ny forskning att de t...
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Mentalt handikappat boskap @toebias.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Folk måste veta detta när hon drar igång sina lögner "Om du är en ensamstående garantipensionär, har 6 barn under 18 år varav flera med funktionsnedsättning och du dessutom tjänstgör i totalförsvaret då kan du teoretiskt få de summor Elisabeth Svantesson pratar om"
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Mentalt handikappat boskap @toebias.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Dom fortsätter så då måste vi andra fortsätta att informera att detta bara gäller om du är en ensamstående garantipensionär, har 6 barn under 18 år varav flera med funktionsnedsättning och du dessutom tjänstgör i totalförsvaret.
"Om du är en ensamstående garantipensionär, har 6 barn under 18 år varav flera med funktionsnedsättning och du dessutom tjänstgör i totalförsvaret kan du få de höga bidrag moderaterna pratar om
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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 30/05/2026
I've written an essay in today's FT Weekend about why - and how - people are shaking off the feeling of being "frozen" in front of a "tusnami", and beginning to fight for the future they want. as.ft.com/r/cfa87609-8... (some free clicks here!)
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Should AI steal your job?
The real question is not what the technology can do but what it ought to do. Sarah O’Connor on the people fighting for the future of work
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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Amazing to talk today about The Wage Standard at @arenagruppen.bsky.social. Discudsed how we can learn from the Swedish experience, esp sectoral bargaining. While Europe broadly may learn from the recent US focus on full employment. Humbled by the presence of so many labor leaders & researchers.
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Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com @thefinancenewsletter.com · 27/05/2026
One of the most dystopian charts I’ve ever seen
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Kevin Rinz @kevinrinz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
New working paper out today for the real UI heads, from me and David Wasser: ⬆️ UI generosity - ⬆️ wages - for UE, J2J, and EE workers - especially at the bottom - ⬇️ hiring from U - ⬇️ LF exit - maybe ⬇️ job postings - ⬆️ posted wages - ⬆️ new entrant hiring - and more!
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 26/05/2026
Workers are being surveilled, fired and hurt in workplaces that recklessly use AI without guardrails and worker input. America’s unions applaud Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, which calls for continued action from unions to protect working people from AI.
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Pope Leo Uses First Major Papal Text to Warn About Dangers of AI
The 42,300-word encyclical urges greater regulation of artificial intelligence.
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 26/05/2026
BREAKING. Nick Cave has now inveighed on the issue of our era — the true relationship between Spongebob and Patrick.
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Johan Enfeldt @johanenfeldt.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Får vi, med migrationsminister Johan Forsells ord ett modernt regelverk för arbetskraftsinvandring med ordning och reda nu? Nej. Regeringen syr istället vidare på lapptäcket och vi får ett ännu snårigare regelverk med en rad olika regler och fler undantag. Häng med!
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