Per H Jensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 296938 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Per H Jensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Per H |
| FAMILY NAME | Jensen |
| SIGNATURE | JENSEN P H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9588-3189 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Workplace practices towards older jobseekers
Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyze workplace ageism as a dynamic interplay between cognitions, affections, and behaviour. Design/methodology/approach The study draws on survey and vignette data collected from a representative sample of Danish employers and employs cross-tabulations and logistic regression analyses, including interaction terms (e.g. cognition × affection). Findings A key finding is that neither negative stereotypes no…
Danske arbejdspladsers personalehåndtering under Covid-19 med særligt fokus på seniorarbejdskraften
Eksisterende forskning har allerede belyst, hvordan køns-, etniske og socioøkonomiske uligheder på arbejdsmarkedet er blevet forstærket under covid-19-pandemien. Denne artikel adskiller sig fra den eksisterende forskning derved, at fokus er på alder. Nærmere bestemt rettes blikket mod mulige aldersbetingede forskelle i arbejdsgivernes fastholdelses- og afskedigelsesmønstreunder covid-19-krisen. Teoretisk tager artiklen afsæt i de sociologiske seg…
Theoretical Challenges and Social Inequalities in Active Ageing
Active ageing has been discussed in international political organisations and among researchers as a major means for combatting the challenges of demographic ageing. This study aims to make a critical-theoretical and empirical assessment of the active ageing concept, challenging the active ageing discourse from two different angles. First, an assessment of the theoretical framework of active ageing shows that the conceptual framework is undertheo…
On how different combinations of conditions produce different early exit/retirement outcomes
Denmark and Sweden are rather similar in most societal dimensions, but differ markedly with regard to the employment rate among older workers, which in 2015 was 65 per cent in Denmark and 75 per cent in Sweden. Using a qualitative (or case-oriented) comparative approach, this article seeks to identify configurations or combinations of conditions that have produced these differences in older workers’ work patterns. From an inter-disciplinary persp…
Danish satisfaction and Austrian discontent with their governments’ measures during the Covid-19 crisis
The various interventions that governments took in the first wave of the Covid-19 outbreak impacted people severely. Given the low satisfaction with the government performance in Austria compared to Denmark, though both governments set out with a suppression strategy early on and were able to lower infection rates, we analyse the changes in civil, political and social citizenship and the governmental communicative practices during the first Covid…
On how the nature of early retirement is related to post-retirement life conditions from a citizenship perspective
The aim of this paper is to analyse how the nature of retirement is related to post-retirement life conditions among early retirees. As to the nature of retirement, we make use of the concepts of push, pull and jump to describe why individuals retire early. Push is analysed as an outcome of poor health and firings, pull as a mechanical (reflective) response to economic and symbolic signals of the welfare state, while jump is described as a reflex…
Strong Labour Market Inequality of Opportunities at the Workplace for Supporting a Long and Healthy Work-Life
Most European countries are gradually increasing the state pension age, but this may run counter to the capabilities and wishes of older workers. The objective of this study is to identify opportunities in the workplace for supporting a prolonged working life in different groups in the labour market. A representative sample of 11,200 employed workers ≥ 50 years responded to 15 questions in random order about opportunities at their workplace for s…
Institutional Entrepreneurs and Social Innovation in Danish Senior Care
This article discusses the social, political, and administrative dynamics behind shifting welfare policies and social innovations in the senior care provided by Danish municipalities. The main argument is that institutional entrepreneurs are key agents of change and that institutional entrepreneurship is rooted in exogenous (e.g., scarce resources) and endogenous (e.g., cognition) factors. The article shows how exogenous factors challenge existin…
Is the Danish welfare state really universal
Explaining differences in women's working time in European cities
Women's work-time pattern in Europe is highly heterogeneous; some women work short or long part-time hours, while others work full-time. Few studies, however, have analysed the factors constituting women's work-time pattern. The article aims to explain why women's working time differs in five relatively big European cities, which represent an urban environment that is particularly supportive to women's employment, and the study is based on a new …
Cause and effects of female labour force participation in local welfare systems
For quite some time, it has been argued that the division of labour between the genders in family and society begets relations of dominance and subordination between men and women. Already towards
Does women's employment enhance women's citizenship
The EU discourse on increasing female employment holds promise. The integration of women into the labour market supposedly supports economic growth, social cohesion, and citizenship. The question is, however, whether the expected consequences of female employment are consistent with reality. Using the EU discourse as a point of departure, this paper scrutinises the effects of female employment from a citizenship perspective in three European citi…
Active Ageing
Doris Bockermann and Frerich Frerichs sixOlder volunteers in England: towards greater flexibility 119 and inclusiveness?
Active ageing
PART I: REALISING VOLUNTEERING BY OLDER PEOPLE IN EUROPE: AN OVERARCHING APPROACH Introduction: enhancing volunteering in later life in Europe ~ Jensen, P.H. and Principi, A. Volunteering in older age: a conceptual and analytical framework ~ Jensen, P.H., Lamura, G. and Principi, A. PART II: OPPORTUNITIES AND RESTRICTIONS FOR OLDER VOLUNTEERS: NATIONAL EXPERIENCES Older volunteers in Italy: an underestimated phenomenon? ~ Principi, A., Chiatti, C…
Social rights and employment rights related to family care
The Fragmented Welfare State
Much research focusing on the welfare state is based on the assumption that welfare regimes are homogenous entities. This idea is supported by studies analysing cash benefits. In the area of welfare services, however, local governments in most countries have some autonomy regarding policy formation as well as the design and implementation of policies. In practice, substantial local differences exist with regard to the provision of welfare service…
Tensions between 'consumerism' in elderly care and the social rights of family carers
The focus of this article is on the effects of the strengthening of economic principles in the field of care that have taken place in many European welfare states since the 1990s, which are connected with new emphases on 'choice', on the role of the market in the provision of elderly care, and on efficiency as a new main welfare value. As a central part of this development, the figure of the elderly person in need of care, who was interpreted bef…
Experiences with the privatization of home care
Processes of privatization in home care for the elderly in Denmark have primarily taken the form of outsourcing public-care provisions. The content and quality of services have in principle remained the same, but the providers of services have changed. The welfare state has continued to bear the major responsibility for the provision of elderly care, while outsourcing has allowed clients to choose between public and private providers of care. The…
Formal and Informal Work
Part I: Introduction to the Approach of the Book 1. The Development of Informal Work in the Work-Welfare Arrangements of European Societies Per H. Jensen, Birgit Pfau-Effinger & Lluis Flaquer 2. The Approach of the 'Arrangement of Work and Welfare' to the Cross-National Analysis of Formal and Informal Work Birgit Pfau-Effinger Part II: Formal and Informal Work in the Diverse Arrangements of Work and Welfare in European Societies 3. Formal and Inf…
Dialogued‐based activation – a new “dispositif”
Purpose The so‐called individual action plan (IAP) has become a major policy instrument in providing active welfare for social benefit claimants, and as such it has attracted quite a research interest. The purpose of this paper is to maintain that research hitherto has been founded in a too narrow notion of the IAP, arguing instead that IAP represents a new societal rationality, in relation to which the scope of research questions should be broad…
Dialogued based activation – a new 'dispositif
Early retirement differences between Denmark and The Netherlands
Privilegering af perspektiver - en refleksion over begrebskonstruktionerne inklusion / eksklusion og intergrering /marginalisering i den sociologiske iagttagelse
Priviligizing perspectives: Reflection on the construction of the concepts of inclusion/exclusion and integration/marginalization in sociological perception Social “inclusion” and “exclusion” are “new” concepts which have emerged from “old” concepts such as inequality, poverty and marginalisation, and the purpose of this article is to examine and discuss the practical potentials and the intellectual limitations accompanying the use of conceptual …
Kontekstuelle og tværnationale komparative analyser
Contextualisation of cross-national comparisons Most social scientists agree that it is necessary to analyse social phenomenon in context. However, the notion of context is most often used loosely and arbitrary. Therefore, this article invites to reconsider the notion of contextualisation, and it is argued that a contextual approach entails that social relations must be given primacy in the analysis of social phenomenon. A contextual model is dev…
Redaktørernes forord
Social rights and employment rights related to family care
The Fragmented Welfare State
Much research focusing on the welfare state is based on the assumption that welfare regimes are homogenous entities. This idea is supported by studies analysing cash benefits. In the area of welfare services, however, local governments in most countries have some autonomy regarding policy formation as well as the design and implementation of policies. In practice, substantial local differences exist with regard to the provision of welfare service…
Activation in Scandinavian welfare policy
The article discusses ‘activation’ in Denmark and Norway from an ‘active society’ perspective. The argument forwarded is that activation in the two Nordic countries shows continuity over the last 50 years, where Denmark and Norway have shared much of the same policy rationale or logic. At the same time there have been discrepancies in the activation opportunities, especially during the 1970s and 1980s. Such differences should be understood in ter…
Early retirement differences between Denmark and The Netherlands
Tensions between 'consumerism' in elderly care and the social rights of family carers
The focus of this article is on the effects of the strengthening of economic principles in the field of care that have taken place in many European welfare states since the 1990s, which are connected with new emphases on 'choice', on the role of the market in the provision of elderly care, and on efficiency as a new main welfare value. As a central part of this development, the figure of the elderly person in need of care, who was interpreted bef…
Dialogued‐based activation – a new “dispositif”
Purpose The so‐called individual action plan (IAP) has become a major policy instrument in providing active welfare for social benefit claimants, and as such it has attracted quite a research interest. The purpose of this paper is to maintain that research hitherto has been founded in a too narrow notion of the IAP, arguing instead that IAP represents a new societal rationality, in relation to which the scope of research questions should be broad…
Experiences with the privatization of home care
Processes of privatization in home care for the elderly in Denmark have primarily taken the form of outsourcing public-care provisions. The content and quality of services have in principle remained the same, but the providers of services have changed. The welfare state has continued to bear the major responsibility for the provision of elderly care, while outsourcing has allowed clients to choose between public and private providers of care. The…
On how the nature of early retirement is related to post-retirement life conditions from a citizenship perspective
The aim of this paper is to analyse how the nature of retirement is related to post-retirement life conditions among early retirees. As to the nature of retirement, we make use of the concepts of push, pull and jump to describe why individuals retire early. Push is analysed as an outcome of poor health and firings, pull as a mechanical (reflective) response to economic and symbolic signals of the welfare state, while jump is described as a reflex…
Institutional Entrepreneurs and Social Innovation in Danish Senior Care
This article discusses the social, political, and administrative dynamics behind shifting welfare policies and social innovations in the senior care provided by Danish municipalities. The main argument is that institutional entrepreneurs are key agents of change and that institutional entrepreneurship is rooted in exogenous (e.g., scarce resources) and endogenous (e.g., cognition) factors. The article shows how exogenous factors challenge existin…
Explaining differences in women's working time in European cities
Women's work-time pattern in Europe is highly heterogeneous; some women work short or long part-time hours, while others work full-time. Few studies, however, have analysed the factors constituting women's work-time pattern. The article aims to explain why women's working time differs in five relatively big European cities, which represent an urban environment that is particularly supportive to women's employment, and the study is based on a new …
Cause and effects of female labour force participation in local welfare systems
For quite some time, it has been argued that the division of labour between the genders in family and society begets relations of dominance and subordination between men and women. Already towards
Danish satisfaction and Austrian discontent with their governments’ measures during the Covid-19 crisis
The various interventions that governments took in the first wave of the Covid-19 outbreak impacted people severely. Given the low satisfaction with the government performance in Austria compared to Denmark, though both governments set out with a suppression strategy early on and were able to lower infection rates, we analyse the changes in civil, political and social citizenship and the governmental communicative practices during the first Covid…
Does women's employment enhance women's citizenship
The EU discourse on increasing female employment holds promise. The integration of women into the labour market supposedly supports economic growth, social cohesion, and citizenship. The question is, however, whether the expected consequences of female employment are consistent with reality. Using the EU discourse as a point of departure, this paper scrutinises the effects of female employment from a citizenship perspective in three European citi…
Project Labour Movement and the Welfare State
In August 1982 we started out on a comparative research project entitled 'Labour Movement and the Welfare State labour movements, occupational safety regulations, unemployment insurance and pension schemes in four West European countries since 1945'. The project is being carried out at the Sociological Institute of the University of Copenhagen, and is being partly financed by the Danish Social Science Research Council for a period of two years. T…
Project Labour Movement and the Welfare State
In August 1982 we started out on a comparative research project entitled 'Labour Movement and the Welfare State labour movements, occupational safety regulations, unemployment insurance and pension schemes in four West European countries since 1945'. The project is being carried out at the Sociological Institute of the University of Copenhagen, and is being partly financed by the Danish Social Science Research Council for a period of two years. T…
Employment and Unemployment Policies and the Functioning of the Labour Market in a Comparative Perspective 1
This study suggests that the phenomenon of unemployment and the regu latory order of the labour market could be analysed cross-nationally as a crucial policy issue of the welfare state. The phenomenon of unemployment highlights central issues concerning public policy-making and the Interaction between state and society. The study is limited to four countries. Denmark, Sweden, Great Britain and Italy It is observable that the four countries show m…
Changing Labour Markets, Welfare Policies and Citizenship
Changing labour markets, welfare policies and citizenship
This book readdresses the question of how full citizenship may be preserved and developed in the face of enduring labour market pressures. The book clarifies the relationship between changing labour markets, welfare policies and citizenship, discusses possible ways in which the spill-over effect from labour market marginality to loss of citizenship can be prevented, specifies this problem in relation to the young, older people, men and women and …
Activation in Scandinavian welfare policy
The article discusses ‘activation’ in Denmark and Norway from an ‘active society’ perspective. The argument forwarded is that activation in the two Nordic countries shows continuity over the last 50 years, where Denmark and Norway have shared much of the same policy rationale or logic. At the same time there have been discrepancies in the activation opportunities, especially during the 1970s and 1980s. Such differences should be understood in ter…
‘Active’ citizenship
This chapter begins with a review of the challenges faced by European welfare states in the 1990s and the solutions to these challenges. It then discusses how changes in welfare states can be analysed; changes to the cultural and structural basis of citizenship; and new approaches to social policy and citizenship. The chapter sets out the purpose of the book, which is to improve, from a comparative perspective, our understanding of the causes and…
The changing face of welfare
The changing face of welfareConsequences and outcomes from a citizenship perspective
"There have been major shifts in the framework of social policy and welfare across Europe. Adopting a multilevel, comparative and interdisciplinary approach, this book develops a critical analysis of policy change and welfare reform. The book applies a dynamic and change oriented perspective to shed light on policy changes that are often poorly understood in the welfare literature, and contributes to a further development of the theoretical and c…
Kontekstuelle og tværnationale komparative analyser
Contextualisation of cross-national comparisons Most social scientists agree that it is necessary to analyse social phenomenon in context. However, the notion of context is most often used loosely and arbitrary. Therefore, this article invites to reconsider the notion of contextualisation, and it is argued that a contextual approach entails that social relations must be given primacy in the analysis of social phenomenon. A contextual model is dev…
Redaktørernes forord
Privilegering af perspektiver - en refleksion over begrebskonstruktionerne inklusion / eksklusion og intergrering /marginalisering i den sociologiske iagttagelse
Priviligizing perspectives: Reflection on the construction of the concepts of inclusion/exclusion and integration/marginalization in sociological perception Social “inclusion” and “exclusion” are “new” concepts which have emerged from “old” concepts such as inequality, poverty and marginalisation, and the purpose of this article is to examine and discuss the practical potentials and the intellectual limitations accompanying the use of conceptual …
Early retirement differences between Denmark and The Netherlands
Formal and Informal Work
Part I: Introduction to the Approach of the Book 1. The Development of Informal Work in the Work-Welfare Arrangements of European Societies Per H. Jensen, Birgit Pfau-Effinger & Lluis Flaquer 2. The Approach of the 'Arrangement of Work and Welfare' to the Cross-National Analysis of Formal and Informal Work Birgit Pfau-Effinger Part II: Formal and Informal Work in the Diverse Arrangements of Work and Welfare in European Societies 3. Formal and Inf…
Dialogued‐based activation – a new “dispositif”
Purpose The so‐called individual action plan (IAP) has become a major policy instrument in providing active welfare for social benefit claimants, and as such it has attracted quite a research interest. The purpose of this paper is to maintain that research hitherto has been founded in a too narrow notion of the IAP, arguing instead that IAP represents a new societal rationality, in relation to which the scope of research questions should be broad…
Dialogued based activation – a new 'dispositif
Tensions between 'consumerism' in elderly care and the social rights of family carers
The focus of this article is on the effects of the strengthening of economic principles in the field of care that have taken place in many European welfare states since the 1990s, which are connected with new emphases on 'choice', on the role of the market in the provision of elderly care, and on efficiency as a new main welfare value. As a central part of this development, the figure of the elderly person in need of care, who was interpreted bef…
Experiences with the privatization of home care
Processes of privatization in home care for the elderly in Denmark have primarily taken the form of outsourcing public-care provisions. The content and quality of services have in principle remained the same, but the providers of services have changed. The welfare state has continued to bear the major responsibility for the provision of elderly care, while outsourcing has allowed clients to choose between public and private providers of care. The…
The Fragmented Welfare State
Much research focusing on the welfare state is based on the assumption that welfare regimes are homogenous entities. This idea is supported by studies analysing cash benefits. In the area of welfare services, however, local governments in most countries have some autonomy regarding policy formation as well as the design and implementation of policies. In practice, substantial local differences exist with regard to the provision of welfare service…
Active Ageing
Doris Bockermann and Frerich Frerichs sixOlder volunteers in England: towards greater flexibility 119 and inclusiveness?
Active ageing
PART I: REALISING VOLUNTEERING BY OLDER PEOPLE IN EUROPE: AN OVERARCHING APPROACH Introduction: enhancing volunteering in later life in Europe ~ Jensen, P.H. and Principi, A. Volunteering in older age: a conceptual and analytical framework ~ Jensen, P.H., Lamura, G. and Principi, A. PART II: OPPORTUNITIES AND RESTRICTIONS FOR OLDER VOLUNTEERS: NATIONAL EXPERIENCES Older volunteers in Italy: an underestimated phenomenon? ~ Principi, A., Chiatti, C…
Social rights and employment rights related to family care
Does women's employment enhance women's citizenship
The EU discourse on increasing female employment holds promise. The integration of women into the labour market supposedly supports economic growth, social cohesion, and citizenship. The question is, however, whether the expected consequences of female employment are consistent with reality. Using the EU discourse as a point of departure, this paper scrutinises the effects of female employment from a citizenship perspective in three European citi…
Explaining differences in women's working time in European cities
Women's work-time pattern in Europe is highly heterogeneous; some women work short or long part-time hours, while others work full-time. Few studies, however, have analysed the factors constituting women's work-time pattern. The article aims to explain why women's working time differs in five relatively big European cities, which represent an urban environment that is particularly supportive to women's employment, and the study is based on a new …
Cause and effects of female labour force participation in local welfare systems
For quite some time, it has been argued that the division of labour between the genders in family and society begets relations of dominance and subordination between men and women. Already towards
Is the Danish welfare state really universal
Political science (22 works) · Economics (20 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (19 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Law (16 works) · Politics (16 works) · Welfare (16 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (14 works) · Welfare state (13 works) · Demographic economics (10 works)