Crisis and the welfare state: the role of public employment services for job placement and the Danish flexicurity system during COVID-19

Schmidt, Torben Dall; Mitze, Timo

doi:10.1093/cjres/rsad002

Crisis and the welfare state: the role of public employment services for job placement and the Danish flexicurity system during COVID-19

Publication date

2023-03-02

Document type

Forschungsartikel

Author

Schmidt, Torben Dall

Mitze, Timo

Organisational unit

BWL, insb. Leadership und Labour Relations

DOI

10.1093/cjres/rsad002

URI

https://openhsu.ub.hsu-hh.de/handle/10.24405/22508

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Series or journal

Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society

ISSN

1752-1386

Periodical volume

16

Periodical issue

1

First page

65

Last page

79

Peer-reviewed

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Part of the university bibliography

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Language

English

Abstract

Denmark is a Nordic welfare state with local government autonomy in public service provision related to workfare policies. We use a policy experiment that re-opened on-site public employment services after the first COVID-19 lockdown in a spatially staggered manner to provide evidence on the effect of public employment services on job placement during a crisis. Early re-opening of on-site public employment services is associated with a better local labour market performance. It particularly benefits low-skilled unemployed and rural areas with specific sector mixes and demographic structures, why workfare-oriented welfare state arrangements remain important to counter social and regional imbalances.

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