The Nordic countries are renowned for their unique administrative register data that include various aspects of an individual’s labour market activities. However, studies of government-led help packages and their effects during the coronavirus crisis in Denmark reveal that the labour market statistics used by government and academics have several blind spots when it comes to some of the most vulnerable groups in the labour market. There are strong signs that we underestimate the scope and depth of atypical work and even lack reliable data. We argue in this piece that the coronavirus crisis is an important lesson for labour market sociology that calls for methodological development.

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冠状病毒危机揭示了北欧劳动力市场数据中的盲点——社会学视角

北欧国家以其独特的行政登记数据而闻名，其中包括个人劳动力市场活动的各个方面。然而，对丹麦冠状病毒危机期间政府主导的一揽子援助计划及其影响的研究表明，政府和学术界使用的劳动力市场统计数据在涉及劳动力市场上的一些最弱势群体时存在几个盲点。有强烈迹象表明我们低估了非典型工作的范围和深度，甚至缺乏可靠的数据。我们在这篇文章中认为，冠状病毒危机是劳动力市场社会学的重要一课，需要方法论的发展。