Danish flexicurity and occupational mobility: A comparison with the United States

We provide a detailed international comparison of the occupational mobility of employer switchers using the US Current Population Survey and Danish administrative data (2011–2019). Comparability and measurement issues have stood in the way of good comparisons of occupational mobility rates between the US and European countries more generally. Making progress towards addressing these, we find that the proportion of employer changers that switches occupations is about 20% lower in Denmark, but at occupation-level quite correlated across both countries. Net mobility rates are also positively correlated, but overall lower in Denmark than in the United States.