Anna Ilsøe

Research Fellow

E-mail: ai@faos.dk

Telephone: +45 35 32 32 12

Anna Ilsøe (MA in Sociology, University of Copenhagen) has been employed at FAOS since August 2003.

Research Areas

From 2003 – 2004 Anna Ilsøe has primarily worked on the project, which evaluated the framework agreements on workers’ participation in the municipal and county sector (Projekt MED-evaluering). She concentrated particularly on the quantitative part of the evaluation in the municipal sector.

From 2005 Anna Ilsøe carried out a comparative study on the regulation of working hours in 10 Danish and German metal companies. The study is part of the project "the Efficiency of the Danish Model" in an International Comparative Perspective” under FAOS’ research program 2004-2009. The comparison focuses on the regulation of flexible working hours and how the decentralisation of the collective bargaining system affects the implementation of flexible working hours in the two countries.

Since April 2006 she has been working on her PhD "Negotiated Flexibility at the Workplace - a Danish Competitive Advantage". The study forms part of a larger project under FAOS research program called "the Company Based Bargaining System". The empirical part of the project includes interviews with workers representatives and management at 15 companies in the industrial sector of Denmark, Germany and the USA. Furthermore a large survey will be conducted in the industrial sector of Denmark.

Main research interests

Decentralisation and individualisation of collective bargaining, flexicurity, and collective agreements on working time and health and safety.

Oral presentations
The Danish flexicurity model, flexicurity and transferability, decentralisation in the Danish and the German collective bargaining system, company level agreements on flexible working hours in Denmark and Germany, bargaining on health and safety at company level.

Selected Publications

Anna Ilsøe (2008): The Danish Flexicurity Model – A Lesson for the US’ in Hendrickx, Frank (ed.): Flexicurity and the Lisbon Agenda. A Cross-Disciplinary Reflection. Social Europe Series vol. 17. Antwerp: Intersentia.
Anna Ilsøe (2008): Trade-offs on Flexible Working Hours at the Company Level: Case Studies from Denmark and the United States. Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting. Champaign, Illinois: Labor and Employment Relations Association
Anna Ilsøe, Jesper Due and Jørgen Steen Madsen (2007): Impacts of Decentralisation – Erosion or Renewal? The decisive link between work place representation and company size in German and Danish industrial relations. Industrielle Beziehungen, no. 3, August 2007.
Anna Ilsøe & Søren Kaj Andersen (2005): Varying flexibilities in systems of organised decentralisation. Working time flexibility in the metal industries in Denmark and Germany. FAOS Research Paper no. 62. Copenhagen: FAOS, Department of Sociology.