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Sebastian Buhai
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Academic economist. Bon vivant. "Enfant terrible".

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What some leftists in the UK (& elsewhere) seek to import is the *nativist turn*, not the model proper. That conflation misnames IMO Denmark’s real achievement (under strain, yes, but for other reasons!) and licenses punitive cherry-picking without solidaristic scaffolding.
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November 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
But “the Danish model”, i.e. what sensible policy wonks admired/desired to copy, was never immigration/asylum restriction. It was *flexicurity*: easy hire/fire + generous unemployment insurance + intensive ALMPs—rights matched by duties (see, e.g., www.aeaweb.org/artic...).
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Danish Flexicurity: Rights and Duties
(Fall 2022) - Denmark is one of the richest countries in the world and achieves this in combination with low inequality, low unemployment, and high-income security. This performance is often attributed to the Danish labor market model characterized by what has become known as flexicurity. This essay describes and evaluates Danish flexicurity. The Danish experience shows that flexicurity in itself, that is, flexible hiring and firing rules for firms combined with high income security for workers, is insufficient for successful outcomes. The flexicurity policy also needs to include comprehensive active labor market programs (ALMPs) with compulsory participation for recipients of unemployment compensation. Denmark spends more on active labor market programs than any other OECD country. We review theory showing how ALMPs can mitigate adverse selection and moral hazard problems associated with high income security and review empirical evidence on the effectiveness of ALMPs from the ongoing Danish policy evaluation, which includes a systematic use of randomized experiments. We also discuss the aptness of flexicurity to meet challenges from globalization, automation, and immigration and the trade-offs that the United States (or other countries) would face in adopting a flexicurity policy.
www.aeaweb.org
November 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
You can do it, Paul!! We’ve run this route many times: survival rate 100% (baby included; she even earned Frequent Baby Flyer status). P.S. As a pro tip, gift-wrap a few mini toys: boom, mystery-toy reveal goes live. 📦✈️🧸✨👼
November 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Policy teaser: allow short, posted, transparent quiet windows, and certify reversibility. Selection gets you clean thresholds; reversibility shrinks financing wedges.

If you care about AI product cadence, disclosure, or real options with financing, I’d love your feedback!

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November 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Pressed for time? Prefer a considerably shorter version? Take a look at these recent presentation slides (≈30 min talk):
www.sebastianbuhai.c...

(And here's that "IO-in-Chile" workshop tweet, where I announced the world about my new research paper: x.com/sbuhai/status/...)

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November 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM