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The work-life balance directive: Towards a gender equalizing EU regulatory welfare state?

A new publication that researches if EU is developing towards a gender equalizing welfare state in…

Moving In and Out of the Shadow of European Case Law: the Dynamics of Public Procurement in the Post‐Post‐Rüffert Era

In a new article by the Journal of Common Market Studies researchers are looking at the use of…

Is the corona pandemic supporting or crowding out the attention towards green transition?

New grant: Researchers from Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) will investigate how…

Why do well-integrated people of immigrant origin feel more discriminated?

Sociologist Merlin Schaeffer has received DKK 6 million from the German Research Council for a…

Sociologists are mapping out volunteer work and community spirit during the coronavirus outbreak

In collaboration with the Danish Institute for Voluntary Effort, sociologists at the University of…

Sociologists participate in emergency research on the corona epidemic

Updated 30 March 2020: Sociologists from the Department of Sociology are contributing to several…

The Hilfr agreement - negotiating the platform economy in Denmark

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

Working under pressure

New book analysis the evolution of employment, job quality and labour relations in the public secto…

Part-time work in Danish private services: a (mis)match between wage flexibility and living hours

This chapter explores how the institutional framework for working time and wage regulation affects…

Personal Household Service Quality project

In this report, the Danish Personal Household Service (PHS) sector - with a special focus on…

Bargaining for equal pay and work–life balance in Danish companies

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0959680117708375

Adapting to survive: The case of Danish employers' organisations

Scholars often characterise Danish employers' organisations (EOs) as relatively stable, with a…

Partnership under pressure

Partnership under pressure: A process perspective on decentralized bargaining in Danish and…

Denmark - Progressing the voluntarist approach

With a digitally connected population and heavy public investment in digitising government services…

A division of labour?

A division of labour? Labour market segmentation by region of origin: the case of intra-EU migrants…