RESq: Reform of Employment Services quorum

 

Steering Group

Bredgaard, T (Thomas )

Research Areas

• Work and Labourmarket
• Politics and Aministration

Current Projects

• New modes of governance and implementation in regional and local employment councils in Denmark. The main aim of this project is therefore to understand how the new regional and local employment councils contribute to cooperation on the implementation of eplmoyment policies.
• A new implementation structure for municipal employment policies. The subject area of this project is the implementation of municipal employment policies in Denmark. The main research question is how legislation and policy objectives are realised in a new institutional set-up with integrated as well as municipal jobcentres.
• Atypical Employment and Welfare Regimes
• Corporate Social Responsibility from public policy to enterprise policy
• Labour market mobility in the Nordic welfare states
• Others actors in employment policy – A comparative implementation analysis (2004-2005)

Notable Publications

• Bredgaard, T. (2008). The Creation and Regulation of Markets in Employment Services - Danish Experiences. In Liley, P and Hartwich, O M (Eds.), Paying for Success - How to make contracting out work in employment services. (pp. 59-71).
• Bredgaard, T and Larsen, F. (2008). Flexicurity and older workers on the Danish labour market. In Sridhar Krishna (Eds.), Flexicurity - Concepts and global perspectives (pp. 103-130).
• Bredgaard, T and Larsen, F. (2008). Quasi-Markets in Employment Policy: Do They Deliver on Promises? Social Policy and Society, 7(3), 341-352.
• Larsen, F and Bredgaard, T. (2008). Redesigning the governance of employment policies- Decentralised centralisation in Danish municipal jobcentres. CARMA's 25th anniversary conference.
• Bredgaard, T and Tros, F. (2008). Flexicurity and human resource management for older workers in the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany and Belgium. Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations, 67, 73-101.
• Bredgaard, T and Larsen, F. (2007). Comparing Flexicurity in Denmark and Japan..
• Larsen, F and Bredgaard, T. (2007). Implementing public employment policy : what happens when non-public agencies take over? International journal of sociology and social policy, 27(7/8), 287-300.
• Bredgaard, T, Larsen, F and Madsen, P K. (2007). Transitional Labour Market and Flexicurity arrangements in Denmark: What can Europe Learn? In Rogowski R (Eds.), The European Social Model and Transitional Labour Markets: Law and Policy.
• Madsen, P K, Larsen, F and Bredgaard, T. (2007). Flexicurity - afklaring af et begreb i bevægelse. Tidsskrift for Arbejdsliv, 9(4), 8-25.
• Larsen, F, Madsen, P K and Bredgaard, T. (2007). The challenges of identifying flexicurity in action - A case study on Denmark. In Jørgensen H and Madsen, P K (Eds.), : Flexicurity and beyond : finding a new agenda for the European social model (pp. 365-391).
• Bredgaard, T and Larsen, F. (2007). Quasi-markets in employment policy in Australia, the Netherlands and Denmark. CARMA research paper, 2007:06.
• Larsen, F and Bredgaard, T. (2007). Jobcentre i spændingsfeltet mellem stat og kommune. Social Årsrapport 2007 .
• Bredgaard, T, Madsen, P K and Larsen, F. (2006). Opportunities and challenges for flexicurity : the Danish example. Transfer, European Review of Labour and Research, 12(1), 61-82.
• Bredgaard, T and Tros F. (2006). Alternatives to early retirement? Flexibility and Security for Older Workers in the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany and Belgium. ILP Innovating Labour Market Policies: Transitional Labour Markets and Flexicurity, Amsterdam, 30 Nov. and 1 Dec. 2006.
• Bredgaard, T and Larsen, F. (2006). The Transitional Danish Labour Market : Understanding a Best Case, and Policy Proposals for Solving some Paradoxes.. Research Paper, Aalborg(CARMA)
• Bredgaard, T, Larsen, F and Madsen, P K. (2006). The challenges of identifying flexicurity in action. Konferencen: Flexicurity and beyond, Aalborg( Danmark)
• Bredgaard, T and Larsen, F. (2005). Active Labour Policy in Denmark as an example of Transitional Labour Market and flexicurity arrangements : What can be learnt? In Bredgaard, T and Larsen, F (Eds.), Employment policy from different angles (pp. 115-135).
• Bredgaard, T and Larsen, F. (2005). Active Labour Policy in Denmark as an example of Transitional Labour Market and flexicurity arrangements : What can be learnt? In Bredgaard, T and Larsen, F (Eds.), Employment policy from different angles (pp. 115-135).
• Bredgaard, T, Larsen, F and Møller, Lars Rune. (2005). Contracting out the Public Employment Service in Denmark : A quasi-market Analysis.. Employment Policy from Different Angles (pp. 211-233).
• Bredgaard, T and Larsen, F. (2005). Flexicurity and Older Workers on the Danish Labour Market. In Bredgaard, T and Larsen, F (Eds.), Employment Policy from Different Angles (pp. 311-331).
• Bredgaard, T and Larsen, F. (2005). Flexicurity and Older Workers on the Danish Labour Market. In Bredgaard, T and Larsen, F (Eds.), Employment Policy from Different Angles (pp. 311-331).
• Bredgaard, T. (2005). Corporate Social Responsibility between Public Policy and Enterprise Policy. TRASFER, 10(3), 372-392.
• Bredgaard, T and Larsen, F. (2005). Employment policy from different angles. (Introduction, chapter 1).
• Madsen, P K, Larsen, F and Bredgaard, T. (2005). The flexible Danish Labour Market : A Review.. Research Papers, Aalborg(CARMA)
• Bredgaard, T. (2004). 'Review' of Gunther Schmid and Bernard Gazier: "The dynamics of full employment - Social integration through transitional labour markets". Journal of European Social Policy, 14(3)
• Bredgaard, T. (2004). 'Similar labels, different contents - A comparison of corporate social responsibility in different contexts. In Jørgensen H, Knusen H and Lind J (Eds.), Labour and Employment Regulation in Europe .

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