Mikkel Mailand
Head of Research, Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Telephone: +45 35 32 32 77
Mikkel Mailand (MA in human geography and political science, Ph.D. in sociology) has been attached to FAOS since 1996.
Research Areas
Research interests: Employment policies, neo-corporatism, flexicurity.
From 1996 to 1999 he primarily worked on his Ph.D. thesis ´The Danish Model at Local and Regional Levels – Consensus and Co-operation in Labour Market Policy Networks’. The thesis studies decision-making processes and co-ordination in and between local and regional tripartite bodies linked to the public employment service and vocational training institutions. Visiting research student at the University of Warwick (UK) in 1999.
Following this, he has been involved in a survey of the social dialogue in the three Baltic countries and Poland (in 2000), a study of social partnerships in the area of employment policy in selected European countries (2001-2002), an analysis of ethnic and gender labour market segregation in the EU (2002-2003 under EU’s 5th framework programme) as well as consultancy work in Poland and Hungary related to social dialogue (2002-2003 under EU’s PHARE-Twinning Programme). Part of the working group coordinating the Danish "network of employment policy research".
Current Research/Projects
As a part of FAOS’ research program 2004-2009 Mikkel Mailand is involved in the projects ´The dissolving boundaries between collective agreements and welfare state policies’ as well as ´Danish Employment Policy in a European Perspective – a Comparative Study of the European Employment Strategy’. Mikkel Mailand is also involved in the projekt 'The Efficiency of the Danish Model - in an International Comparative perspective'.
Selected publications
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Ph.D. thesis (1999; DJØFs Forlag 2001): the monographies ´The Role of Employers and Trade Unions in Multipartite Social Partnerships’ (the Copenhagen Centre, 2002) and 'Coalitions and Policy Coordination - Revision and impact of the European Employment Strategy (DJØF Publishing 2006)
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Contribution to the anthology ´Denmark – Status Quo or a More Self-assured State?’ (Bergham Books, 2001)
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Contribution to the anthology ‘Partsstyring i arbejdsmarkedspolitikken – perspektiver og alternativer’ (SFI, 2003)
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Journal article ´Different Routes, Common Directions? Activation Policies for Young People in Denmark and the UK’ (International Journal of Social Welfare, 2004)
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Journal article ´Social Dialogue in Central and Eastern Europe – Present State and Future Development` (European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2004).
