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In a new study Trine P. Larsen and Caroline de la Porte investigates why Denmark is considered the leader among the Nordic countries and globally when it comes to childcare.

In a new article Trine P. Larsen and Bjarke Refslund et.al. examines how trade unions tackle precarious work by analysing three illustrative case-studies from Denmark, Germany and the UK.

In a new article Trine P. Larsen and Anna Ilsøe et al. focus on the role of collective bargaining and employee involvement in relation to algorithm management

In a new article Jens Arnholtz and Chris F. Wright examines the impact of increased labor migration on skill-sourcing practices in countries with distinct national skill formation and industrial relations institutions.

New article investigates whether existing stretegic human resource management frameworks can adequately frame and deliver the academic knowledge needed to address the novel challenges posed by the pandemic.

The journal Socio-Economic Review have republished 20 of their best research articles. One of the selected articles is about labor market research and was written by FAOS' Christian Lyhne Ibsen et al.

A new report takes a closer look at key welfare service sectors, long-time care and early childhood education and care in seven EU countries

Mikkel Mailand analyzes the roles and preferences of Danish companies and employers' organizations in relation to four 'welfare policy' areas - unemployment, (further) education, pensions and family-working life.

In a new article in the Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies Trine P. Larsen and Anna Ilsøe have analyzed how the Nordic countries have reacted to the Corona crisis, which revealed gaps in the Nordic countries' social…

In a new article Christian Lyhne Ibsen et al. examines whether workers respond to job insecurity with voice, and assess the role of unions, managers, and employment arrangements in this relationship

The Employment Relations Research Centre (FAOS) invites applications for a fixed-term postdoctoral researcher position (3 years and 3 months) starting on 1 March 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter.

In a new article Nana Wesley Hansen and Mark Friis Hau analyze how trade unions and their grass roots use Facebook and what consequences this has for the understanding of collective bargaining.

In a new article in Economic and Industrial Democracy Mikkel Mailand and Trine P. Larsen et al. examines the examines the interest representation in the gaming industry in Denmark, Italy and the Netherlands.

A new analysis by Christian Lyhne Ibsen shows how a large number of tripartite agreements were instrumental in avoiding economic meltdown and mass layoffs during the Covid-19 pandemic

Caroline de la Porte, Trine P. Larsen, Åsa Lundqvist investigates the regulation of publicly organized early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Denmark and Sweden

In a new article Christian Lyhne Ibsen, Lisa Sezer and Virginia Doellgast explores how differences in business association structures relate to the ways firms cooperate in competitive markets.

This paper presents a novel approach for studying differences and similarities among platform workers, by taking into account the wider labor market position of platform workers. Analytically, we seek inspiration from…

Anna Ilsøe og Trine Pernille Larsen has contributed to an article that examines the relation between marginal part-time work and future career opportunities

Trine P. Larsen and Anna Ilsøe examines why and to what extent the parties in Danish workplaces take advantage of the opportunities to negotiate locally

Highly qualified international professionals are in demand across many sectors. But their potential to make significant contributions to the Danish economy and broader society are often not fully realised.

In a new article, Anna Ilsøe and Fredrik Söderqvist argue that a Nordic model is developing in the platform economy

A new report examines how social dialogue unfolds among Fintech companies, which represents a new area of the sector in Denmark

This article presents case studies of how Denmark and Sweden have responded to pressure from an EU-induced dualization that has institutionalized mobile low-wage workers as an outside group

In a new article Martin B. Carstensen, Christian Lyhne Ibsen and Vivien A. Schmidt argues for the focus on role of ideas, discourses and identities in understanding shifting dynamics in employment relations.

In a new report Trine P. Larsen and Anna Ilsøe takes a closer look at how new innovative trade union services can be a tool to reach groups on the edge of the Danish labor market

Professor emeritus Jesper Due passed away the 23. December

In a new article Anna Ilsøe and Trine P. Larsen investigates why digital labour platforms are choosing different strategies towards collective bargaining

In a new article in Socio-Economic Review Martin B. Carstensen and Christian Lyhne Ibsen develops a new analytical framework to account for institutional change in vocational education and training (VET) systems

A new study demonstrates a correlation between low number of weekly work hours and poor health and safety at the work place

FAOS is hosting an online lunch webinar on 1. of July about non-standard work and innovative policy responses

In a new article, Christian Lyhne Ibsen and Amanda Chuan ask how the institutional design of vocational education and training (VET) affects worker adaptability to changing skill demands over the life cycle.

Christian Lyhne Ibsen receives the ’LERA 2021 John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award’ for his contribution to research that addresses industrial relations/employment problems of international significance

Nana Wesley Hansen has contributed to the journal Public Administration Management with an article on ‘ The influence of regulative contents, stakeholders, and formalization on managerial autonomy perceived at the front…

In a new report Anna Ilsøe and Trine P. Larsen investigates the scope of non-standard work in the Nordic countries as well as the working conditions of non-standard workers

In a new Journal of European Social Policy blog Trine P. Larsen and Anna Ilsøe takes a closer look at the more than 130 ad hoc relief packages and amendments initiated by the Nordic governments during the Corona-crisis,

In a new article Anna Ilsøe, Trine P. Larsen og Emma S. Bach explores the interaction between the conventional labour market and digital platforms.

A new special issue of Politics and Society uses and extends Culpepper’s influential concept of “quiet politics” according to which business is able to shape policies and regulations when issues are of low salience to…

In a new article Christian Lyhne Ibsen analyzes the challenges traditional social democratic unions are facing in the knowledge economy

Who drives the development within employment policy– the Commission or the member states

New article: Labour market statistics used by government and academics have several blind spots when it comes to some of the most vulnerable groups

New book analyzes corporatist (tripartite) arrangements since the Great Recession in 2008 in Denmark, Netherlands and Austria

A new research project aims to uncover the relationship between platform work and future employment with the Danish labour market

Analysis of two Nordic cases of new collective agreements in the platform economy: the Hilfr agreement in Denmark and the Foodora agreement in Norway

Digital platforms is an emerging phenomenon across the Western world and allow citizens to accrue income online

Responses of Nordic trade unions and employers’ organizations to the platform economy

A new publication that researches if EU is developing towards a gender equalizing welfare state in the light of the work-life balance directive.

In a new article by the Journal of Common Market Studies researchers are looking at the use of labour clauses in public procurement following the Rüffert-ruling.

New report analysis the first collective agreement between a digital platform and a trade union

New book analysis the evolution of employment, job quality and labour relations in the public sector since the 2008 crisis in nine EU Member States

In this report, the Danish Personal Household Service (PHS) sector - with a special focus on cleaning and eldercare - is described and analyzed

Focusing on posting of workers, where workers employed in one country are send to work in another country, this edited volume is at the nexus of industrial relations and European Union studies.

A new article examines how, and to what extent, the day-to-day realities of industrial cleaners vary due to distinct regulatory regimes and explores why social dialogue initiatives have not had a greater impact in terms…

This report investigates the role of firms in generating skills mobility. Combining Danish firm- and individual-level register data, we explore firms’ use of foreign highly skilled labour in Denmark in two different…

How does recent union mergers and restructuring affect union’s service provision, interest representation and perceived union influence.

In a new article in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Jonas Felbo-Kolding, Janine Leschke and Thees F. Spreckelsen analyze EU-migrants labour market integration in Denmark, Germany and the UK.

In a new article Trine P. Larsen, Sissel Trygstad and Kristine Nergaard compares the employers’ role in collective wage regulation in industrial cleaning in Denmark, Germany, Norway and the UK.

In a new article Jens Arnholtz, Guglielmo Meardi and Johannes Oldervoll shows how internationalization, trade union decline, enforcement problems and rising self-employment all strain the effectiveness of collective wag…

In this article lecturer Anna Ilsøe argues that digital development in the labor market can lead to changes in the Danish collective bargaining model.

Labour market integration is one of the major challenges facing Western European states today, not least because of the increasing migration flows coming from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and countries outside the…

Through a cross-national comparative study of local government ‘best practice cases’ of socially responsible procurement in Denmark, Germany and the UK, this article critically examines the role of labour clauses in…

The posting of workers has become a key topic in debates about how national labour relations respond to pressures from EU market making. The question is whether these pressures will lead to erosion of employment…

The report ‘Strategic, but vulnerable: Industrial Relations and Creative Workers (IR-CREA) - National report Denmark’ aims to describe and analyze pay and working conditions within the creative industry in Denmark, Ital…

The report ‘Hybrid work – social protection of atypical work in Denmark’ looks at cash-related social protection in Denmark for so-called ‘atypical’ employment. It contains questions about social benefits risks related…

This article focuses on the interplay between IR‐institutions – sectoral bargaining and other sectoral joint initiatives by social partners – and atypical employment in three sectors – Industrial cleaning, construction,…

This article compares the decentralisation of Danish and Australian systems of industrial relations in recent decades. Despite significant differences in historical starting points and trajectories, which reflect…

This report present the results of the Danish part of a EU-project, which investigates how traditional players on the labour market (trade unions, employers' associations, government) as well as new players (platforms,…

Employment policy became a cornerstone in Social Europe with the launch of the European Employment Strategy (EES) in 1997 and was seen an key instrument in addressing the unemployment problem which in most EU countries…

FAOS has initiated a cross-disciplinary research project focusing on highly skilled foreign professionals – expats – and their firms in collaboration with the Department of Economics. The purpose is to create knowledge…

This article by Trine P. Larsen and Steen E. Navrbjerg adds new insights into how equal pay and work–life balance issues are negotiated in male- and female-dominated companies, based on a survey of 3275 shop stewards.

Half of the Danes use computers or other digital devices extensively at work, while 20 percent uses computerized machines. Digital labour and capital platforms are sources of income for more than 100.000 Danes. These ar…

This analysis by Anna Ilsøe, Trine Pernille Larsen, Jonas Felbo-Kolding shows that the de facto hourly wages have increased in industrial cleaning, retail, hotels and restaurants since the global financial crisis.

A new article written by Nana Wesley Hansen from FAOS and Åsmund Arup Seip from Fafo analyse the potential power of public employers in Sweden, Denmark and Norway and examine how they use this potential.

A new article written by Anna Ilsøe, Andi Pekarek and Ray Fells examines how managers and shop stewards develop and maintain trust-based bargaining relations at company level

The paper The digitalisation og service work - social partner responses in Denmak addresses the question as to how social partners define the digitalization of work and their perception of its consequences along with…

A new FAOS-report on digital platforms attempts to systematize the many questions that digital platforms raise regarding employment relations

Anna Ilsøe and Jonas Felbo-Kolding is behind this new study, that looks at the role of physical space in labour–management cooperation

In this article, published in Journal of Industrial Relations, Christian Lyhne Ibsen, FAOS, and Maite Tapia, Michigan State University, review and assess research on the role of trade unions in labour markets and…

FAOS has been granted 50,000 euro by the European Commission to conduct the Danish part of an EU-project concerning the platform economy. The Danish project is led by associate professor Anna Ilsøe, FAOS, and conducted…

Institutional stability of collective bargaining is of major importance for the moderation of unit labour costs growth. Christian Lyhne Ibsen from FAOS has just published his latest research in British Journal of…

This article by FAOS-researcher Steen E. Navrbjerg investigates how the implementation of headquarters-originated employment practices affect multinational corporations' ability to exploit the value of organizational…

This article investigates recent developments in low-wage service work in the private sector of Denmark, Norway and Sweden and introduces the concept of 'living hours' to explain these developments. The analysis focuses…

The European Commission has granted FAOS 130.000 euros for research in two areas; Bargaining and Social dialogue in the Public Sector and Industrial Relations and Creative Workers

Although Denmark and Sweden still are countries of European reference, the Commission’s recent love affair with Denmark and its flexicurity model has cooled off somewhat.

Since the financial and economic crisis wage formation has become an imporant issue on the European policy agenda. FAOS researches Søren Kaj Andersen and Christian Lyhne Ibsen has contributed to a new book on the…

How is service user involvement in schools and hospitals being combined with social dialogue (collective bargaining and employee involvement) in Denmark and how are employers and trade unions responding to the emerging…

Although Danish shop stewards are involved in developing local responses to the economic crisis, most manage to keep their colleagues onboard. A new article examines the employee relations in companies highly affected,…