ABSTRACT
In the last decades, the world economy has undergone significant transformations, with undeniable consequences for national socio-economic conditions. The countries in our study — Canada, the United States, Denmark and Sweden — represent separate societal models and we have asked whether their labour markets develop along separate routes due to their divergent institutional set-ups. Or do the four labour markets tend to converge — no matter what institutional differences have been established — because they are subjected to similar pressures from strong social, economic and technological forces, the intensified international competition and the general shift toward post-industrialism?
