Markets, institutions and sensemaking – Explaining employer collectivism in Sweden and Denmark
Christian Lyhne Ibsen is Associate Professor at the Employment Relations Research Center (FAOS) at the University of Copenhagen where he also earned his PhD in Sociology. Christian holds a M.A. in European Industrial Relations from Warwick Business School, United Kingdom, and a M.Sc. in Political Science from University of Copenhagen. During his PhD, he was visiting scholar at MIT/Sloan School of Management.
His research falls within the fields of comparative political economy, comparative employment relations and economic sociology. Since earning his PhD, he has been studying the development of collective bargaining systems in Northern Europe from a historical institutionalist perspective and trade union membership using Danish administrative data.
During his tenure at CES, Christian will work on two projects. First, he will work with prof. Kathleen Thelen on a project about vocational education and digitalization in Denmark and Sweden. Second, he will work on a project about membership logics of employer associations in Sweden and Denmark with respect to wage bargaining and collective skill formation. The latter project is funded by a two year post.doc grant from the Danish Council for Independent Research.
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scholar is affiliated with CES.
Markets, institutions and sensemaking – Explaining employer collectivism in Sweden and Denmark
Sociology
