TUESDAY 3 NOVEMBER· STOCKHOLM · THE DAY IN 5 STORIES

More people work in Sweden, but 400,000 want more hours

Glassworkers handle a blowpipe and glowing glass beside a furnace at Skansen in Stockholm.
AleWi / CC BY-SA 4.0

Sweden had 74,000 more people in work in the third quarter than a year earlier, yet the number working fewer hours than they wanted also grew. Some 400,000 employed people wanted and could work more hours, up by 33,000.

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