In this paper we study the effects on support for different political parties due to an increase in the immigrant share in Danish municipalities during the period 1989-2001. We find that the immigrant share has some notable effects. The anti-immigration parties are among those that win votes...

This paper uses a social experiment in labour market policy - providing early and intensive monitoring and programme participation in unemployment spells - to assess the nature of labour market policy effectiveness. The experiment was conducted in two counties in Denmark during the winter of...

We argue in favour of the shareholder model of the firm for three main reasons. First, serving multiple stakeholders leads to ill-defined property rights. What sounds like a fair compromise between stakeholders can easily evolve in a permanent struggle between the stakeholders about the ultimate...

We connect the recent medical and economic literatures on the long-run effects of early-life conditions, by analyzing the effects of economic conditions on the individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality rate later in life, using individual data records from the Danish Twin Registry covering births...

The protection of outsiders in the era of liberalization -- Labor market policy in Austria, Denmark, and Sweden -- Relying on the weak : Austrian unions and smoothed dualization -- Strengthened governments and the erosion of Danish flexicurity -- Goodbye to Swedish social democracy and welfare...

Erhvervshistorie om Det Østasiatiske Kompagnis udvikling fra starten i 1884 til lukningen i 2020. En unødvendig hård skæbne skabt af udefra kommende ledelser, mener forfatteren, som selv var leder i ØK i mange år

Udnyttelse af arbejdsmigranter er et udbredt fænomen på det danske arbejdsmarked indenfor en række brancher som gartnerier, landbrug, byggeri, butik og rengøring. Ofte er migranterne ansat i midlertidige ufaglærte stillinger. Under hvilke forhold arbejder migranterne? Hvordan finder...