Labour market mobility in Nordic welfare states.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nordic Council of Ministers.

Series:

TemaNord ; 2010:515.

TemaNord, 0908-6692 ; 2010:515

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor mobility--Scandinavia.

Labor mobility.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Copenhagen : Nordic Council of Ministers, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

""Content""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Summary""; ""1. Introduction""; ""1.1 Nordic labour market systems""; ""1.2 Labour market mobility""; ""1.3 Aim and general research questions""; ""1.4 Research on mobility in the Nordic countries""; ""1.5 Concluding remarks""; ""2. Labour market characteristics""; ""2.1 Introduction""; ""2.2 Unemployment and employment rates""; ""2.3 Gender composition""; ""2.4 Age distribution""; ""2.5 Educational levels and occupational groups""; ""2.6 Industrial structure""; ""2.7 Temporary contracts and part-time employment""; ""2.8 Concluding remarks""

""3. Nordic labour market and welfare systems from a flexicurity perspective""""3.1 Introduction""; ""3.2 Flexicurity as an institutional system � general considerations and the Danish example""; ""3.3 A comparison of central institutions using international indicators""; ""3.4 A comparison of Nordic flexicurity profiles""; ""3.5 Mobility and labour market institutions""; ""3.6 Summing up: Expected mobility patterns in four Nordic countries""; ""4. Data and Methods""; ""4.1 Introduction""; ""4.2 Measuring mobility in general""; ""4.3 Alternative data sources""; ""4.4 Constructing the data""

""4.5 Statistical analyses""""4.6 Dependent variables""; ""4.7 Independent variables""; ""5. Mobility between Employment, Unemployment and Inactivity""; ""5.1 Introduction""; ""5.2 A General Overview""; ""5.3 Determinants behind Changes""; ""5.4 Predicted Probabilities for Transitions""; ""5.5 Country Differences""; ""5.6 Summing up the Main Results""; ""6. Transitions into and out of temporary employment""; ""6.1 Introduction""; ""6.2 Temporary employees who are they?""; ""6.3 Mobility to and from temporary employment a general overview""

""6.4. Factors affecting mobility multivariate analyses""""6.5. Predicted probabilities for transitions""; ""6.5 Country differences""; ""6.6. Conclusion""; ""7. Mobility in and out of part-time work""; ""7.1 Introduction""; ""7.2 Part-time and working hours definitions""; ""7.3 A general overview: who works part-time?""; ""7.4 Labour market mobility into and out of part-time employment""; ""7.5 Working time mobility""; ""7.6 Part-time employees who increase their working hours""; ""7.7 Country differences""; ""7.8 Conclusion""

""8. Mobility between Workplaces, Occupations and Industries""""8.1 Introduction""; ""8.2 Mobility levels""; ""8.3 Factors affecting mobility: multivariate analyses""; ""8.4 Conclusions""; ""9. Conclusion""; ""9.1 Introduction""; ""9.2 Determinants of labour market mobility""; ""9.3 Mobility rates in the four Nordic countries""; ""9.4 The significance of welfare and labour market institutions""; ""9.5 Is flexicurity a Danish or a general Nordic phenomenon?""; ""References""; ""Sammanfattning""; ""Appendix A - National descriptions of institutional frameworks""

""Employment protection legislation ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC:

923313517