This paper asks how the institutional design of vocational education and training (VET) affects worker adaptability to changing skill demands over the lifecycle. We compare two types of VET systems. Collectivist systems have high employer involvement and focus on specific skills, whereas Statist...

Using unique employer-employee linked full population data from Danish administrative registers, this paper offers the first empirical study to differentiate between three different mechanisms of the union wage premium that are often conflated in the literature: bargaining coverage, individual...

In many European countries, marginal part-time, (solo-) self-employment and secondary jobs have been increasing since the last decades. The question about the provision of social protection and labour legislation for these types of employment is the starting point for a project entitled "Hybrid...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of part-time work on absolute wages. The empirical focus is wages and working hours in three selected sectors within private services in the Danish labour market – industrial cleaning, retail, hotels and restaurants – and their...