Labour Market Regulation in Europe

- Flexicurity, Integration and Responses to the Crisis

PhD-course 25-27 November 2009, University of Copenhagen

European labour markets face at present an economic crisis that challenges economic and social policies as well as industrial relations systems and companies. This PhD-course will bring together PhD-students and a number of researchers from Denmark and other European countries working on these issues to discuss theoretical, methodological and empirical dimensions of the national responses and their implications for European industrial relations. The course targets all PhD students that work with industrial relations or other labour market related issues.

The course addresses the questions of convergence or divergence between European countries and economic sectors and is divided into three sub-themes:

  • Sub-theme 1: ‘National models and their handling of the crisis - flexicurity and more' focuses on how flexicurity and other labour market models have responded to the crisis and discusses the relevance of the most celebrated flexicurity concept in economic recession. Read more
  • Sub-theme 2: ‘European social integration - EU-level regulation and responses to the crisis' presents and discusses recent EU-regulation for the labour market and related areas. These include the work-related directives, the European Employment Strategy and the social partners' autonomous agreements along with other outcomes of the European social dialogue and European Court of Justice's recent rulings such the Laval and the Viking cases. Read more
  • Sub-theme 3: ‘Financial crisis, multinational corporations and industrial relations' focuses on the response of MNCs to the crisis and the consequences for industrial relations at workplace level. Read more

Each of the three days focuses on one of the three themes. The program includes key-note speakers, panels, discussions, presentations of phd-projects and a company visit. To have the course approved, the participants have to participate all three days.

The course is organized by the Employment Relations Research Centre (FAOS) at Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen. It is free for PhD-students to register and most meals are included. However, accommodation and transport are not covered.

NB: The course is fully booked and it is no longer possible to register.

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Berndt Keller: Social Dialogue - The Specific Case of the European Union (reading)