Content -- Foreword -- Preface -- Summary -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Nordic labour market systems -- 1.2 Labour market mobility -- 1.3 Aim and general research questions -- 1.4 Research on mobility in the Nordic countries -- 1.5 Concluding remarks -- 2. Labour market characteristics -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Unemployment and employment rates -- 2.3 Gender composition -- 2.4 Age distribution -- 2.5 Educational levels and occupational groups -- 2.6 Industrial structure -- 2.7 Temporary contracts and part-time employment -- 2.8 Concluding remarks -- 3. Nordic labour market and welfare systems from a flexicurity perspective -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Flexicurity as an institutional system - general considerations and the Danish example -- 3.3 A comparison of central institutions using international indicators -- 3.4 A comparison of Nordic flexicurity profiles -- 3.5 Mobility and labour market institutions -- 3.6 Summing up: Expected mobility patterns in four Nordic countries -- 4. Data and Methods -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Measuring mobility in general -- 4.3 Alternative data sources -- 4.4 Constructing the data -- 4.5 Statistical analyses -- 4.6 Dependent variables -- 4.7 Independent variables -- 5. Mobility between Employment, Unemployment and Inactivity -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 A General Overview -- 5.3 Determinants behind Changes -- 5.4 Predicted Probabilities for Transitions -- 5.5 Country Differences -- 5.6 Summing up the Main Results -- 6. Transitions into and out of temporary employment -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Temporary employees - who are they? -- 6.3 Mobility to and from temporary employment - a general overview -- 6.4. Factors affecting mobility - multivariate analyses -- 6.5. Predicted probabilities for transitions -- 6.5 Country differences -- 6.6. Conclusion -- 7. Mobility in and out of part-time work -- 7.1 Introduction.

7.2 Part-time and working hours - definitions -- 7.3 A general overview: who works part-time? -- 7.4 Labour market mobility into and out of part-time employment -- 7.5 Working time mobility -- 7.6 Part-time employees who increase their working hours -- 7.7 Country differences -- 7.8 Conclusion -- 8. Mobility between Workplaces, Occupations and Industries -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Mobility levels -- 8.3 Factors affecting mobility: multivariate analyses -- 8.4 Conclusions -- 9. Conclusion -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Determinants of labour market mobility -- 9.3 Mobility rates in the four Nordic countries -- 9.4 The significance of welfare and labour market institutions -- 9.5 Is flexicurity a Danish or a general Nordic phenomenon? -- References -- Sammanfattning -- Appendix A - National descriptions of institutional frameworks -- Employment protection legislation -- Unemployment benefits -- Active labour market policies -- Life-long learning -- Appendix B -- B1: Variable list and definitions -- B2: Methods for studying workplace, industrial and occupational mobility.