Abstract This paper examines the recurrent political and media assertion that reducing social assistance (försörjningsstöd) will increase employment participation. Using economic data, legal analysis, and a philosophical framework, it demonstrates that this premise collapses once confronted with structural labour-market realities. The Swedish economy currently exhibits a quantitative and qualitative shortage of available jobs; welfare recipients cannot be “motivated” into occupations that do not exist. Moreover, deregulated labour importation, the juridical asymmetry between citizens and corporate…

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