The Danish Labour Market Model

2020 ◽  
pp. 558-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laust Høgedahl
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Union Density ◽  
Market Model ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Labour Market Policy ◽  
Active Labour Market Policy ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Active Labour

The Danish labour market model is renowned for combining a high degree of flexibility for employers and security for workers. In addition, the labour market parties (trade unions and employer organizations) have a long tradition of conducting collective bargaining to regulate key elements such as wages and working conditions. Since collective agreements cover important components of labour market regulation, Danish labour market policy has been focused on correcting imperfections in the labour market through an active labour market policy. However, since the new millennium, a number of policy changes have created a significant impact on the Danish labour market model, especially in terms of eroding the security elements of the model. Additional fundamental changes might also be linked to structural effects such as a decreasing trade union density and declining collective bargaining coverage in some parts of the private sector.

scholarly journals Tying Up the Loose Ends: The Determinants of Active Labour Market Policy in the Western Countries 1985-2013

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 192
Author(s):  
Ari-Matti Naatanen
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Union Density ◽  
Labour Market Policy ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
Active Labour Market Policy ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Active Labour ◽  
The Impact

Knowledge on the determinants of Active Labour Market Policy (ALMP) spending accumulated during the 2000s. Despite these advances, the current research lacks a systematic approach to the relevant determinants. This article fills the research gaps by analysing simultaneously the 14 most frequently used determinants for the first time. In addition to these variables, this study introduces a new factor, namely the impact of economic crises. Through the analysis of the longest data period yet investigated of 20 Western countries and a comparison of methodological alternatives, this study both challenges and reinforces previous findings, as well as produces new ones. For example, it is the first investigation to reveal the positive effect of government indebtedness and economic crises on ALMP expenditure. However, the rivalry between the “usual suspects” continues, as the negative effects of budget deficits, foreign trade, and population ageing, and the positive effects of trade union density and GDP growth, were rediscovered in this analysis.

Dualising the Swedish model: insiders and outsiders and labour market policy reform in Sweden: an overview

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Bo Davidsson
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Labour Market Policy ◽  
Active Labour Market Policy ◽  
Social Insurance System ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Swedish Model ◽  
Welfare Institutions ◽  
Active Labour ◽  
Fiscal Austerity

For many decades it seemed that the Swedish model was immune to change. Welfare scholars saw in Sweden a paragon of an equal society based on a generous welfare state that had withstood the pressures of globalisation. While it is true that some welfare institutions are still intact, that is no longer the case in labour market policy. This cannot be explained by fiscal austerity imposed by the EU; rather it was the economic crisis in the early 1990s that first set reforms in motion. This chapter traces labour market reforms in Sweden over the past two decades. The pattern suggested here is one in which labour market outsiders have borne the brunt of reforms. This can be seen in the manner in which labour market flexibility was introduced, the fact that many of the unemployed now stand outside the social insurance system, in the declining value of social assistance benefits and perhaps most strikingly in the radical cuts to spending on active labour market policy.

scholarly journals Policy evaluation via a statistical control: A non-parametric evaluation of the ‘Want2Work’ active labour market policy

2015 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 635-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Lindley ◽  
Steven Mcintosh ◽  
Jennifer Roberts ◽  
Carolyn Czoski Murray ◽  
Richard Edlin
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Policy Evaluation ◽  
Labour Market Policy ◽  
Statistical Control ◽  
Active Labour Market Policy ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Active Labour ◽  
Non Parametric

scholarly journals Full Employment in a Green Society

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-55
Author(s):  
Steve Dawe
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Full Employment ◽  
Labour Market Policy ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Active Labour Market Policy ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Active Labour ◽  
Contemporary Work ◽  
The Uk

This article is an attempt to re-conceptualise Full Employment. The UK context is the main geographical focus. A normative route to the rehabilitation of Full Employment is offered - recast here as ‘Green Full Employment’ - utilising a variety of Green perspectives from sociology, politics and economics. This contribution to the debate about Full Employment is ‘normative’, because without ethical values we may lack a moral compass to motivate policies. Green Full Employment is presented here not simply as a potential ‘active labour market’ policy, but as a contributory facet of the on-going ‘Green Industrial Revolution.’ Inevitably, this reconceptualization raises questions about the value of many forms of contemporary work and what purpose they serve. The potential resistance of neoliberal forces to Green Full Employment is noted, before future lines of research are suggested.

scholarly journals Comparative Social Policy Analysis and Active Labour Market Policy: Putting Quality before Quantity

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOCHEN CLASEN ◽  
DANIEL CLEGG ◽  
ALEXANDER GOERNE
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Central Area ◽  
Labour Market Policy ◽  
Active Labour Market Policy ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Active Labour ◽  
Dimensions Of Variation

AbstractIn the past decade, active labour market policy (ALMP) has become a major topic in comparative social policy analysis, with scholars exploiting cross-national variation to seek to identify the determinants of policy development in this central area of the ‘new welfare state’. In this paper, we argue that better integration of this policy field into social policy scholarship requires rather more critical engagement with considerable methodological, conceptual and theoretical challenges in order to analyse these policies comparatively. Most fundamentally, rather more reflection is needed on what the substantially relevant dimensions of variation in ALMP from a social policy perspective actually are, as well as enhanced efforts to ensure that it is those that are being analysed and compared.

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