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Rydell, Alexis, and Rune Wigblad. "Company-level flexicurity during the restructuring process: a model." Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 17, no. 4 (November 2011): 547–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1024258911419781.
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This article focuses on the analysis of and suggestions for improving company-level flexicurity during the restructuring process, based on a best-practice case in Sweden. The parties involved in the restructuring process created company-level flexicurity through strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR) in exchange for increased numerical flexibility by means of temporary employees. The high numerical flexibility was possible because the trade unions saw that top management was committed to strategic socially responsible behaviour in the restructuring process. Our proposal concerns the dissemination of a model for company-level flexicurity during the restructuring process which promotes: (1) improved strategic CSR in the restructuring process, (2) improved transition to new employment in the local labour market and (3) improved flexibility, which creates increased efficiency, competitiveness and rapid payback in the course of restructuring. Cet article est centré sur l’analyse de la « flexicurité » au niveau de l’entreprise durant le processus de restructuration et sur des suggestions d’amélioration sur la base d’un cas de meilleure pratique en Suède. Les parties impliquées dans le processus de restructuration ont créé une « flexicurité » au niveau de l’entreprise au travers d’une approche stratégique de la responsabilité sociale des entreprises (RSE), en échange d’une flexibilité numérique accrue grâce au recours à une main-d’oeuvre temporaire. La flexibilité numérique élevée a été rendue possible parce que les syndicats ont vu que le sommet du management avait adopté un comportement stratégique socialement responsable durant le processus de restructuration. Notre proposition concerne la dissémination d’un modèle de flexicurité durant le processus de restructuration qui promeut: (1) une meilleure approche stratégique de la RSE durant le processus de restructuration, (2) une meilleure transition vers un nouvel emploi sur le marché du travail local, et (3) une meilleure flexibilité, qui génère une efficience et une compétitivité accrues et un retour rapide à la rentabilité au cours de la restructuration. Dieser Beitrag untersucht anhand eines Beispiels bewährter Praxis in Schweden die Anwendung betrieblicher Flexicurity-Regelungen während des Umstrukturierungsprozesses und formuliert Vorschläge für deren Verbesserung. Die an dieser Umstrukturierung beteiligten Parteien haben eine Flexicurity-Regelung im Rahmen einer Strategie zur sozialen Verantwortung des Unternehmens (CSR) eingeführt, als Gegenleistung für eine erhöhte Flexibilität durch den Einsatz von Zeitarbeitskräften. Die Gewerkschaften akzeptierten die hohe Flexibilität, weil die Unternehmensführung sich zu einem strategischen sozial verantwortungsvollen Handeln im Umstrukturierungsprozess verpflichtet hatte. Aus unserer Sicht sollte bei Umstrukturierungsprozessen ein betriebliches Flexicurity-Modell angewandt werden, das Folgendes fördert: 1) eine verbesserte strategische CSR im Umstrukturierungsprozess, 2) einen besseren Übergang in eine neue Beschäftigung auf dem lokalen Arbeitsmarkt und 3) eine verbesserte Flexibilität, die zu mehr Effizienz und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit führt und eine schnelle Amortisierung während der Umstrukturierung ermöglicht.
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Redaktionen. "Flexicurity." Tidsskrift for Arbejdsliv 9, no. 4 (December 1, 2007): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/tfa.v9i4.108629.
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D en danske flexicurity-model, der kombinerer et fl eksibelt arbejdsmarked med social tryghed, har udviklet sig til en eks portsucces. Opnåelsen af fl exicurity gennem reformer af ansættelsesbeskyttelsen, ar bejdsmarkedspolitikken og velfærdssystemer ne er gjort til genstand for politisk diskussion og reformer så forskellige steder som i USA, Chile, Japan, Frankrig, Tyskland, Sverige, Portugal og Spanien. Den store eksponering hænger også sammen med, at in ternationale organisationer som OECD, ILO og EU-kommissionen ynder at referere til det 'gode' danske eksempel på fl exicurity som et alternativ til den liberale angloamerikanske vej. er efterhånden blevet et kvalitetsstempel for den danske arbejdsmarkedsmodel svarende til, hvad lurmærket engang var for dansk smør. Og hvad er det så den danske fl exicuritymo del kan? Ifølge beskæftigelsesministeren er modellen medansvarlig for, at: ¥ Danmark er blandt de lande i EU, der har den højeste beskæftigelse og laveste arbejdsløshed ¥ Danske lønmodtagere ligger helt i top internationalt, når de svarer på, hvordan de opfatter deres jobsikkerhed ¥ Danmark ligger også helt i top internationalt, når lønmodtagerne svarer på, hvor tilfredse de er med deres job Beskæftigelsesministeren sammenligner den danske flexicurity med humlebien. Ligesom humlebien i teorien ikke burde kunne fl yve, så burde det danske arbejdsmarked heller ikke efter gængs teori kunne fungere. Med de relativt høje ydelser burde det være umuligt at få så mange i arbejde. Alligevel styrer Dan mark ifølge beskæftigelsesministeren igen nem stride økonomiske konjunkturer, mens andre EU-lande er hårdt ramt. I dette nummer har vi sat os for at trænge om bag festtalerne og komme tættere på 'humlebiens' hemmeligheder samtidig med, at vi med artiklerne lægger op til også at undersøge om det billede, beskæftigelsesministeren maler af fl exicurity-modellen, nu også svarer til virkeligheden. Thomas Bredgaard, Flemming Larsen og Per Kongshøj Madsen lægger ud med en oversigtsartikel, som tager fl exicurity-begre bet under behandling. Forfatternes udgangspunkt er et ønske om at skabe større klarhed over samt videreudvikle et begreb, der er på alles læber både politisk og i forskningsverdenen. Artiklen beskæftiger sig dels med begrebets historiske oprindelse og dets videre udvikling. De ser på, hvordan og hvorfor det danske arbejdsmarked i international sam menhæng er blevet udnævnt til at være det bedste eksempel på flexicurity. Og dels be skæftiger forfatterne sig med en videreudvikling af begrebet fl exicurity, hvor forskellige kombinationer af sikkerhed og fl eksibilitet analyseres. Denne del af artiklen munder ud i en analysemodel, der gør det muligt at rubricere forskellige lande i relation til deres placering i forskellige fl exicu-
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Ferent-Pipas, Marina. "Flexicurity in the EU28 Countries: A Multiyear Composite Indicator Proposal." Scientific Annals of Economics and Business 71, no. 1 (March 8, 2024): 43–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.47743/saeb-2024-0006.
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This study computes a flexicurity index for the EU28 countries for 2001-2019 following the European Commission’s four components of flexicurity model. The index allows the ex-post assessment of flexicurity efforts and efficiency. Following the computation of the index, we compare its values against the theoretical flexicurity typologies and against other empirical flexicurity groupings to assess their (dis)similarities. Even though Northern and Western countries generally have higher flexicurity scores than Southern and Eastern states, the study shows some countries deviate from their theoretical performance. Thus, some of the Continental and Mediterranean countries have flexicurity values like those of the Nordic group. Moreover, the flexicurity regimes are not static as the theoretical typology suggests: while Denmark and France are always in the top performers’ group, other countries change their performance throughout the 2001-2019 period. The flexicurity index correlates highly with empirical country groupings in the literature. The highest correlation is with country groupings using the European Commission’s four components of flexicurity model, followed by the Golden Danish Triangle, and lastly, the Wilthagen and Tros’ flexicurity matrix. In the end, we compare EU countries’ performance in the flexicurity index scores with their performance in selected employment and unemployment rates, labor productivity, and poverty rates. Results suggest that higher flexicurity performance correlates generally with better labor market and social outcomes, the highest correlations being in the case of labor productivity rates.
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Bredgaard, Thomas, and Per Kongshøj Madsen. "Farewell flexicurity? Danish flexicurity and the crisis." Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 24, no. 4 (April 19, 2018): 375–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1024258918768613.
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Before the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008, flexicurity topped the European labour market and social policy agenda. It was acclaimed for combining the flexibility of liberal labour markets with the security of social welfare states, thereby offering a viable formula for success in the new global economy. Nowhere was this better exemplified than in Denmark, with the Danish system repeatedly highlighted as a good example of flexicurity in action. In this article, we revisit the flexicurity concept, assessing how the Danish labour market came through the crisis. We argue that the economic crisis and especially political reforms of the unemployment insurance system have challenged the institutional complementarities of flexicurity, but that the Danish labour market is recovering and adapting to new challenges. The Danish case illustrates that institutional complementarities between flexibility and security are fragile and liable to disintegrate if the institutions providing flexicurity are not maintained and supported.
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Madsen, Per Kongshøj. "Flexicurity – Towards a Set of Common Principles?" International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 23, Issue 4 (December 1, 2007): 525–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/ijcl2007025.
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The interplay between labour markets and welfare states is at the core of debates about the new Europe, which will be shaped as the result of the Lisbon process. Recently the concept of ‘flexicurity’ has moved to the centre of the discussion. Can interfaces between welfare states and labour markets be developed, where flexibility and security come together having ‘flexicurity’ as the outcome? How can flexicurity develop within different national employment systems? Can the design and implementation of flexicurity arrangements be guided by a set of common principles on flexicurity?
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De Vos, Marc. "European Flexicurity and Globalization: A Critical Perspective." International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 25, Issue 3 (September 1, 2009): 209–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/ijcl2009016.
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This paper places the European agenda of ‘flexicurity’ in a broader context. It explains how flexicurity connects to fundamental and historical characteristics of European Union labour market organization. It shows how flexicurity and the European Employment Strategy (EES) manifest a fundamental shift from EU law to EU policy. It explores the connection between flexicurity and the European Union’s agenda vis-à-vis globalization, particularly in light of the Lisbon Strategy. A broad and critical overview is given of the European Globalization Adjustment Fund (EGAF), the EU’s own and pioneering flexicurity tool in facing the labour market challenges of globalization.
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Jensen, Carsten Strøby. "The flexibility of flexicurity: The Danish model reconsidered." Economic and Industrial Democracy 32, no. 4 (April 6, 2011): 721–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143831x11401928.
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During the last five to ten years, much attention internationally has been focused on the concept of flexicurity, and especially on the Danish model of flexicurity. Some have even talked about the Danish ‘magic formula’ of flexicurity. The Danish flexicurity model has been characterized by a special relation between flexibility, social security and active labour market policy, where a high level of social security is seen as a precondition for a labour market characterized by flexibility. In this article it is argued that the Danish labour market is characterized by having not just one model of flexicurity, but two. These two models cover different parts of the labour market and different segments of employees. The first model (the blue-collar flexicurity model) – the one that is often focused on in the literature – covers primarily skilled and unskilled workers on the labour market. The second model (the white-collar flexicurity model) – one seldom mentioned in the literature – covers primarily employees with middle-range or high-range education and qualifications.
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Wilthagen, Ton. "FLEXICURITY PATHWAYS." Tilburg Law Review 14, no. 2 (January 1, 2007): 80–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/221125907x00065.
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Laporšek, Suzana. "Implementation of flexicurity in Slovenia." Review of innovation and competitiveness 6, no. 1 (February 12, 2020): 21–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.32728/ric.2020.61/2.
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Flexicurity remains an important policy instrument in the EU and will be especiallyimportant in the changing economic and labor market environment, characterized with changing nature of work and development of new forms of work. Purpose. This paper examines the implementation of flexicurity policies in Slovenia and compares them with the EU countries. Design/methodology/approach. As there is no uniform measure of flexicurity, the analysis is structured in accordance with four elements of flexicurity policies, developed within the EU, and suitable indicators: (i) flexibility of contractual relations; (ii) lifelong learning; (iii) active labor market policies; and (iv) social protection system. Analysis uses descriptive statistics for last available years and compares these data with crisis year 2010. Data for international comparisons were obtained from the European Commission, Eurostat and Organization for the Economic Co-operation and Development, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia and the Employment Service of Slovenia. Findings and iImplications. Slovenia has in the past already performed labor market reforms that relate to flexicurity components, yet there is still room for improvement. These are especially needed in the field of lifelong learning and expenditures for active labor market policies, where Slovenia is at the tail of the EU countries. In the front of flexibility, a significant decline in the employment protection was noticed with the last legislative change in 2013, which aimed at reducing segmentation and increasing labor market flexibility. In the front of social protection, Slovenia is among the EU countries with the most generous social systems, which, on the other hand, create high work disincentives. Limitations. This study focuses only on the presentation of the recent indicators of flexicurity components, which is one of its major limitation. Future research should study in more detail the effects of flexicurity on labor market, reconsider the importance of flexicurity in assuring decent work and develop a more comprehensible measure of flexicurity. Originality. The paper adds to the existing literature on Slovenia by giving an overview of recent developments of flexicurity concept, pointing on the areas that require policy response.
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Pedersini, Roberto. "Quale flexicurity? Studi e politiche su flessibilitŕ e sicurezza nel lavoro." SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO, no. 114 (September 2009): 125–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/sl2009-114010.
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- The paper presents the origins and transformation of the concept of flexicurity and stresses the problems with the implementation of the flexicurity model adopted by the European Union. He then proposes some research lines to make it more apt to guide labour market reform.Keywords: labour market policies, work flexibility, flexicurity, industrial relations, Europe, social research
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Kreiner, Claus Thustrup, and Michael Svarer. "Danish Flexicurity: Rights and Duties." Journal of Economic Perspectives 36, no. 4 (November 1, 2022): 81–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/jep.36.4.81.
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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.
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Grigorescu, Adriana, and Arina Mihaela Niculescu Diaconu. "Impact of Flexicurity Policies on the Romanian Labor Market." ECONOMICS 7, no. 1 (June 1, 2019): 7–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/eoik-2019-0003.
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Abstract Along with joining the EU and with the desire to be compatible with the European labor market, flexicurity begins to penetrate gradually the Romanian labor market, becoming a topical concept, an economic and social recovery tool. In the simplest possible way, flexicurity can be defined as the compromise between flexibility and work safety. The flexicurity principle was born as a solution to the European dilemma: how to increase the competitiveness of European enterprises in global competition without sacrificing the European social model. Although a gradual passage is attempted, the tradition of a profession inherited from one generation to another or a stable job still exists in the human resource mentality, but it no longer exists in the present society. The concept of flexicurity is relatively new, introduced in Europe in 2006, when the principles of flexicurity were developed, but they were implemented according to the economic specificity of each EU member state. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects that EU accession has had on the Romanian labor market and the subsequent steps to harmonize Romania with the European Union requirements from the point of view of human resources management, flexicurity at the labor market. In Romania, the flexicurity balance is balanced, in the sense that the trade unions support a broader level of security, and the employers tend to a greater degree of flexibility. In conclusion, the Romanian labor market to develop a high degree of flexicurity must aim at increasing employment and reducing long-term unemployment, promoting workplace security and reducing the rigidity of labor law, especially in case of voluntary dissolution of firms, or of collective redundancies. In addition, the flexibility of collective and individual work contracts is also sought.
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Kuráková, Ivana, Jana Marasová, and Anna Vallušová. "Assessment of flexicurity implementation in selected EU countries." Ekonomické rozhľady – Economic Review 50, no. 3 (September 22, 2021): 269–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.53465/er.2644-7185.2021.3.269-287.
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The flexicurity approach has taken official shape with the release of the Europe 2020 strategy, which recommended this approach for employment policies for all EU Member States. As Europe 2020 is in its final phase, the aim of the paper was to analyse the development of flexicurity implementation during the validity of the Europe 2020 strategy in selected countries (the Slovak Republic, the Netherlands, France and Poland) based on individual flexicurity indicators and to find out to what extent this development correlated with employment rate in the countries concerned. The results show that the positive development within the four proposed components of flexicurity may contribute to increasing employment rate in the given countries. On the other hand, it is important to perceive that the employment rate reflects the overall situation in the country and is influenced by many different determinants. At the end of the article, we present our view of the further development of flexicurity.
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Ferent-Pipas, Marina. "‘Flexibility’ and ‘security’ from rivals to teammates: a short history of flexicurity." Virgil Madgearu Review of Economic Studies and Research 16, no. 1 (March 28, 2024): 15–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/rvm.2023.16.102.
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This article provides a short yet comprehensive historical review of ‘flexicurity,’ an equally acclaimed and debated public policy of the first two decades of the 20th century. Early understandings of ‘flexibility’ and ‘security’ in labor economics placed the two terms in antithetic positions, generally defining ‘flexibility’ as the lack of ‘security’ or considering ‘security’ as the cause for the lack of ‘flexibility.’ The change in social standards in the early 1990s generated the emergence of ‘transitional labor markets,’ a concept that further facilitated the appearance of a new labor market policy – ‘flexicurity.’ The article presents each of these stages in the development of flexicurity. It describes the stories of the three most influential flexicurity cases - the Dutch, the Danish, and the European Union.
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Cakir, Ozlem, S. Alp Limoncuoglu, Ahmet Tatar, and Ilknur Tatar. "Flexicurity in turkey." QUADERNI DI ECONOMIA DEL LAVORO, no. 97 (June 2012): 59–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/qua2012-097004.
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Nagopoulos, Nikos, and Kostas Rontos. "Applying Sociological Knowledge to Produce Positive Social Change. - New Forms of Employment and the Case of Flexicurity." European Journal of Social Sciences Education and Research 6, no. 2 (April 30, 2016): 180. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejser.v6i2.p180-190.
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This paper considers flexicurity as a potential strategy to improve labour market, especially in times of economic crisis. Flexicurity is defined as a grated strategy aimed at simultaneously improving a) flexibility and security in the labour market b) social cohesion at a time of intense social changes with lack of social protection and instability c) flexible and reliable contractual arrangements (FCA) d) comprehensive lifelong learning (LLL) strategies e) effective active labour market policies (ALMP); and Modern social security systems (MSS). Thereafter, the paper presents a state of the art regarding the typologies of the flexicurity concept. Based on the state-of-the-art, and in order to explain the different levels of flexicurity strategies among EU member states, the authors suggest the criteria of examining and analysing the features of the good examples of flexibility policies at the regional and local level of EU. Based on those criteria, the authors then develop a typology of flexicurity initiatives. The specific characteristics of those initiatives are analysed. Finally, a discussion about the types of regions for application is taking place
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Bredgaard, Thomas, Flemming Larsen, and Per Kongshøj Madsen. "Flexicurity — afklaring af et begreb i bevægelse." Tidsskrift for Arbejdsliv 9, no. 4 (December 1, 2007): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/tfa.v9i4.108626.
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Flexicurity er et begreb på vandring. Det blev opfundet i Holland i midten af 1990erne og er siden blevet en samlebetegnelse for det danske arbejdsmarkedssystem. Aktuelt er opnåelse af flexicurity blevet til topprioriteten for EU-kommissionens forsøg på reformer af arbejdsmarkedsområdet. Dermed bliver det et begreb, som alle medlemslande er tvunget til at forholde sig til. Flexicurity er med andre ord en retorisk succes. I denne artikel beskriver vi begrebets vandring fra Holland over Danmark til toppen af den europæiske politiske dagsorden.
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Funk, Lothar. "Labour Market Trends and Problems in the EU’s Central and Eastern European Member States: Is Flexicurity the Answer?" Journal of Contemporary European Research 5, no. 4 (December 21, 2009): 557–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.30950/jcer.v5i4.254.
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Throughout the 1990s, international organisations, such as the International Monetary Fund mainly based their policy proposals for transition economies and the high unemployment, low growth countries in Western Europe, on economic “orthodoxy”. This approach predominantly followed neoclassical economics in which market liberal solutions predominate. These suggestions were controversial; the early results of these policies appeared to be disappointing. Policymakers sought alternative reform proposals and the idea of “flexicurity” has gradually emerged to the political buzzword. Flexicurity combines flexibility with security and suggests that rather generous unemployment benefits and spending on active labour market policies can be aligned with a flexible, employment-friendly labour market. Originating in Denmark, the European Commission and the International Labour Organisation have promoted flexicurity more or less independent of specific single country cases, and based their approach on more abstract, generalised relationships between flexibility and security. These bodies argue for an alternative policy to pure orthodox deregulation and liberalisation for the member states of the European Union (EU) and the former transition economies that joined the EU since 2004. After a review of common labour market-related characteristics and problems of the EU’s central and eastern European members, the article summarises and critically evaluates the main elements of flexicurity suggestions. It further compares them to the relevant policy proposals based primarily on more orthodox economic analysis. The analysis shows that several preconditions for a successful flexicurity strategy are still lacking across the new member states. Moreover, the article demonstrates that current proposals by the critics of a single-minded flexicurity approach by no means always disregard potentially positive effects of improving the supposed trade-offs between flexibility and security. At least a limited convergence between flexicurity and a renewed orthodoxy in the economic mainstream can be detected.
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Furåker, Bengt, and Tomas Berglund. "Flexicurity Institutions and Labour Market Mobility." International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 27, Issue 2 (June 1, 2011): 111–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/ijcl2011009.
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Advocates of flexicurity claim that flexibility and security in the labour market can be achieved by a combination of certain institutions: liberal Employment Protection Legislation (EPL), generous income protection, extensive Active Labour Market Policies (ALMPs), and good opportunities for Lifelong Learning (LLL). Such a mix of measures is assumed to lead to an efficiently functioning labour market, implying a win-win situation for both employers and employees. This article examines the relationship between flexicurity institutions and some forms of labour market mobility between employment and unemployment and between employment and inactivity in four Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, in the period 2000-2006. With the most liberal EPL and generous measures for people without jobs, Denmark is closest to the flexicurity ideal. Controlling for various other factors, it turns out that the Danish labour market generally - but not in every respect - has the highest levels of mobility. Perhaps the most interesting exception is that the highly significant transition rate from unemployment to employment is higher in Norway. The explanatory value of flexicurity is, thus, limited and the assumptions regarding the effects of mutually reinforcing flexicurity institutions are called into question.
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Jensen, Carsten Strøby. "Flexicurity og de danske arbejdsmarkedsrelationer – en eller to modeller?" Dansk Sociologi 21, no. 1 (March 3, 2010): 27–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/dansoc.v21i1.3194.
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Danmark har de senere år været genstand for en betydelig international opmærksomhed knyttet til forhold på det danske arbejdsmarked. Dette har ikke mindst været tilfældet i lyset af den såkaldte flexicuritymodel. Karakteristisk ved flexicuritymodellen er den – i hvert fald i teorien – særlige relation mellem fleksibilitet, social sikkerhed og aktiv arbejdsmarkedspolitik, hvor social sikkerhed og aktiv arbejdsmarkedspolitik ses som tilvejebringende forudsætninger for et arbejdsmarked præget af en høj grad af fleksibilitet. I artiklen analyseres forholdet mellem fleksibilitet og sikkerhed på det danske arbejdsmarked med udgangspunkt i forskellige segmenter af lønmodtagere på arbejdsmarkedet. Artiklens hovedkonklusion er, at der ikke er én, men to forskellige flexicuritymodeller på det danske arbejdsmarkedet. Og at den ”klassiske” – og efterhånden internationalt berømte – danske flexicuritymodel, hvor det på den ene side er let at fyre medarbejdere (hvilket giver høj fleksibilitet), og hvor der på den anden side gives høj kompensation i forbindelse med arbejdsløshed (hvilket giver høj sikkerhed), kun dækker en del af arbejdsstyrken i Danmark. Fleksibiliteten på arbejdsmarkedet – i form af adgang til at fyre medarbejdere – er ikke så høj som det almindeligt antages på alle dele af arbejdsmarkedet, ligesom sikkerheden – i form af kompensation i forbindelse med arbejdsløshed – ikke så høj som det tilsvarende almindeligvis antages i flexicuritylitteraturen.
Søgeord: Flexicurity, arbejdsmarked, arbejdsmarkedsrelationer, industrial relations.
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Carsten Strøby Jensen: Flexicurity and Employment Rela-tions in Denmark – One or Two Models of Flexicurity
In recent years the development of the Danish labour market have been subject of major international attention. This attention has focussed on the so-called flexicurity model that dominates the Danish labour market. Flexicurity has been characterized – at least in theory – by the special relation between flexibility, social security and active labour market policy, where a high level of social security is seen as a precondition for a labour market characterized by flexibility. In this article we will argue that it is possible to identify two different types of institutionalized relations between flexibility and security on the Danish labour market. There is not one model of flexicurity in Denmark, but rather two models that tend to cover different parts of the labour market and different segments of employees. The first model of flexicurity – the one that is often focused on in the literature – covers primarily skilled and unskilled workers on the Danish labour market. The second model of flexicurity – one seldom mentioned in the literature – covers primarily employees with middle-level or high-level education and qualifications.
Key words: Industrial relations, labour market, flexicurity, flexibility, security.
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Håkansson, Kristina, Tommy Isidorsson, and Hannes Kantelius. "Temporary Agency Work as a Means of Achieving Flexicurity?" Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies 2, no. 4 (November 30, 2012): 153. http://dx.doi.org/10.19154/njwls.v2i4.2309.
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After decades of debate about flexibility, flexicurity has become a new buzzword in working life. Flexicurity refers to both the employer’s demand for flexibility and the employee’s demand for security. Thus, the idea is to solve the flexibility–security trade-off. There is also a discussion that mentions temporary agency work as one way of creating a flexicurity system. The flexibility potential is not called into question—numerical flexibility is a quite common motive for using temporary agency workers. However, the security dimension has to be scrutinized. The aim of this article is to analyze the temporary work agency industry’s potential for providing the security dimensions of the flexicurity model in a Swedish context. The study is based on a survey of whitecollar temporary agency workers in Sweden (n = 533). Overall, the vast majority do not perceive security. Our most important result is that both the work agency and the user firm have a dual impact on the agency workers’ perception of security.
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JESSOULA, MATTEO, PAOLO R. GRAZIANO, and ILARIA MADAMA. "‘Selective Flexicurity’ in Segmented Labour Markets: The Case of Italian ‘Mid-Siders’." Journal of Social Policy 39, no. 4 (June 21, 2010): 561–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279410000498.
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AbstractThe article is focused on the analysis of flexicurity arrangements in the Italian case with a twofold aim. The first aim is substantive: analysing and evaluating recent labour market reforms in Italy with particular reference to the possible emergence of a new flexicurity model. The second goal is to contribute to the debate on labour market development and flexicurity by enriching and refining the available analytical tools. More specifically, we argue that the traditional conceptual ‘lenses’ focusing on the ‘insiders’/‘outsiders’ divide are inadequate to grasp the ongoing changes in the Italian labour market. This leads us to identify a third category of workers, the ‘mid-siders’, who are increasingly relevant in the Italian case and may prove to be relevant in other labour markets too. Moreover, we introduce the concept of ‘selective flexicurity’, referring to the fact that in the Italian case flexibility and security measures have been applied differently across the various categories of workers.
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Funk, Lothar. "European Flexicurity Policies: A Critical Assessment." International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 24, Issue 3 (September 1, 2008): 349–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/ijcl2008019.
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This paper examines whether the principal ideas of flexicurity – the combination of labour market flexibility and security for employees – can potentially be regarded as the lowest common denominator of the controversial European Social Model as the European Commission intends to implement flexicurity policies in all Member States. The main theme of the analysis is an evaluation of whether and under what conditions the concept of flexicurity can be regarded as beneficial in attempts to solve labour market problems in the European Union. The critical examination casts doubt on too strong an emphasis on this new paradigm as it may lead to potentially counterproductive results in at least some Member States.
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Alishani, MSc Anera, BA Ariana Shabani, and Dr Sc Muje Gjonbalaj. "Labour Market Institutions in the Western Balkan Countries and their Economic Implications: Evidence for Kosova." ILIRIA International Review 3, no. 2 (December 31, 2013): 85. http://dx.doi.org/10.21113/iir.v3i2.117.
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Flexicurity as one of the most important priorities of employment policies in the EU and its Member States is considered to be also important for the other states of Central and Eastern Europe, including the Western Balkans. According to European Commission (2007, p.7), flexicurity as a combination of flexibility and security in working arrangements can be suggested as an answer to dynamic changes happening in today’s national and international economies; it is an answer to the EU’s dilemma on how to maintain and improve competiveness while reinforcing the European social model.The countries of the Western Balkan which have suffered from the transition process still cannot have a desirable performance of the labour market. Even though the economies of Western Balkan have experienced some economic growth that followed the post-socialist recession, it did not reflect also on better labour market performance, in other words it was considered a “jobless growth”.To address this issue, this paper provides a literature review of the notion of flexicurity and then investigates the relevance of flexicurity for the countries of the Western Balkans through its found components (flexible and reliable contractual arrangements, lifelong learning, active employment policies and social security system). Even though flexicurity can be a way out for low performed economies it is considered as highly costly.
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Suska, Justyna. "Flexicurity and corporate social responsibility (CRS)." Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Humanitas Zarządzanie 17, no. 4 (December 2, 2016): 74–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/18998658.1232690.
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Purpose – Flexicurity and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) are important issues of the modern social policy in Europe, and at the same time they are becoming part of the social, economic and political reality. Economic development has been occurring in parallel within the social, economic, political and cultural spheres. These changes served as a backdrop for the creation of two solution models called Flexicurity and CSR. The first term, Flexicurity, means that solutions are focused on securing the performance of work to the company’s benefit, while at the same time caring about the employee’s terms and conditions of employment and work performance. Flexicurity combines two elements, i.e. flexibility and job security, and makes it possible for the employer and employee to secure their interests. CSR is a concept that expresses a certain formula of a company’s strategy, realized from the point of view of interests of such an entity, but with consideration of entities from its surroundings, such as: employees, business partners, clients, competitors, local society and natural environment. The aim of this article is to present scientific insight concerning the relations between the Flexicurity and CSR models. Study methodology – For the purposes of this paper, the following research methods were used: critical analysis of literature, document research method, diagnostic (scenario) survey method and comparative study method. Synthesis, deduction and induction methods were also used. Result – As a result of the conducted study, it was shown that modern companies operating in this new economy face an incredible challenge – they must learn how to manage in a manner altogether different than before. Because of this, there is need to take many actions and make much effort, which is not an easy task. In a modern, knowledge-based economy, companies need to fulfil a new role – social responsibility that is also concerned with the introduction of Flexicurity and making it a permanent element of company management Originality/value – The conducted analysis creates a foundation for the discussion on the subject of eliminating imbalance between the scale at which the solutions of the Flexicurity and CSR models are currently used and the present demand for their introduction on the part of employees, companies, local government institutions, employers’ organizations and employee unions.
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Makarewicz-Marcinkiewicz, Agnieszka. "Flexicurity Towards Responsibility for the Labour Market Changes." Athenaeum Polskie Studia Politologiczne 4, no. 44 (December 31, 2014): 151–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/athena.2014.44.09.
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The concept of flexicurity has been a key issue in the discussions and activities of institutions of the European Union in the field of employment and social policy for about two decades. The purpose of this article is to analyze the idea of flexicurity in the context of responsibility for development of the labour market. The responsibility is mostly transferred to the state and employees, while the employers are exempt from accountability for the social costs associated with the fluctuations in the economic cycle. The article contains the analysis of the labour market flexibilisation process and its compensation with the security system, critical approach to flexicurity models and challenges associated with the implementation of this concept.
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Nectoux, François, and Laurent L. G. van der Maesen. "From Unemployment to Flexicurity." European Journal of Social Quality 4, no. 1-2 (January 1, 2003): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/146179103781796956.
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Meardi, Guglielmo. "Flexicurity Meets State Traditions." International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 27, Issue 3 (September 1, 2011): 255–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/ijcl2011017.
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This article presents a theoretical and empirical discussion of the effects of the Europeanization of employment policies, arguing that the interaction with state traditions in industrial relations is a complex one, which may mediate or even distort European Union (EU) policies. State traditions do not imply strong path dependence nor coherence and immutability of national 'models', as theorized by dominant institutionalist approaches, but, as described by Crouch in 1993, influence the interactions between actors, who then mediate internationalization pressures. The European Employment Strategy (EES) confirms this. A quantitative analysis of employment policy indicators does not reveal significant distinctive convergence effects, and a qualitative analysis of the EU countries that have implemented the most far-reaching labour market changes ( Germany, Italy, and the new Member States) confirms the precedence of national over European politics, which tend to be characterized by the use of rhetorical tools for national actors.
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Keller, Berndt, and Hartmut Seifert. "Atypical Employment and Flexicurity." management revu 16, no. 3 (2005): 304–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/0935-9915-2005-3-304.
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Keller, Berndt, and Hartmut Seifert. "Flexicurity – the German trajectory." Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 10, no. 2 (May 2004): 226–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/102425890401000207.
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The focus of this article is the concept of ‘flexicurity’, flexibility linked to social security. We shall look at the issue in terms of the institutional framework in Germany and as an alternative to pure flexibilisation. The central elements are the four related concepts of (i) transitional labour markets, (ii) collective bargaining and working time policies which safeguard employment, (iii) lifelong learning, and (iv) provision for old age. These can be looked at from an analytical perspective, as well as in terms of the periods of employment and of post-employment. Furthermore, we deal with different forms of atypical employment in terms of the concept of flexicurity developed here.
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Burroni, Luigi, and Maarten Keune. "Flexicurity: A conceptual critique." European Journal of Industrial Relations 17, no. 1 (March 2011): 75–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959680110393189.
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VANDENBERG, Paul. "Is Asia adopting flexicurity?" International Labour Review 149, no. 1 (March 2010): 31–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1564-913x.2010.00074.x.
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Hevenstone, Debra. "Flexicurity, Happiness, and Satisfaction." International Journal of Sociology 41, no. 3 (October 2011): 7–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.2753/ijs0020-7659410301.
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Klammer, Ute. "Flexicurity in a life-course perspective." Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 10, no. 2 (May 2004): 282–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/102425890401000210.
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This article extends the analysis of flexicurity to take account of the life-course perspective; in the international flexicurity debate such an approach has so far not been systematically taken. The article focuses on the question of what options will be needed for time allocation in different phases of life and over the whole life of an individual, and what financial resources could be combined to finance those phases. The first section discusses methodological and conceptual issues related to flexicurity and the life course. In the second section, longitudinal data from Germany is presented to illustrate some of the relevant patterns of, and changes within, life courses. The third and main section deals with policy implications. Four crucial objectives of a flexicurity policy based on a life-course approach are identified, and a range of options to improve flexibility and security over the lifetime are discussed. These options include measures to increase time sovereignty, subsidised part-time schemes for care and lifelong learning, the use of accumulated pension savings to finance other activities during the course of working life, and the role of minimum provision in social security schemes.
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Potužáková, Zuzana. "Flexicurity - Challenge to Improve Czech Labour Market." Review of Economic Perspectives 9, no. 4 (January 1, 2009): 227–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10135-009-0005-4.
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Flexicurity - Challenge to Improve Czech Labour Market Flexicurity reflects the current basic trend of the EU in guaranteeing high employment levels and attainability of national fiscal systems. It was introduced in Denmark in the 1990s and significantly helped reduce unemployment levels. The Czech labour market, despite the transformation process, has still space for further improvement, especially in the time of economic slow-down. The best way is to try to apply elements and components which have been already successfully implemented in the other EU Member States. The aim of the paper is (based on the statistical indicators and official documents concerning labour markets topic) to describe the basic function of the model and find the components of the flexicurity model which could be used also in the Czech Republic and change labour market operation.
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Grishin, I. "Encouraging and Dynamization of Employment: Prescription of Flexicurity." World Economy and International Relations, no. 4 (2012): 40–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.20542/0131-2227-2012-4-40-50.
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The article proposes an analysis of the phenomenon of flexicurity (flexible security) in a broad problem-country context. Flexicurity is an interesting attempt to initiate a change of employment of the employee in accordance with the new social and technological conditions. Against the background of cross-country comparisons the author reveals the specific features of the Danish labor market and, partly, of the Netherlands’s one. There the considered phenomenon has received the greatest development.
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Andersen, Søren Kaj. "Vikarer mellem fl eksibilitet og sikkerhed." Tidsskrift for Arbejdsliv 9, no. 4 (December 1, 2007): 63. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/tfa.v9i4.108624.
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Flexicurity dukkede først op i Holland, og her var der fra start af fokus på ansatte i 'atypisk' beskæftigelse-det vil sige vikarer, tidsbegrænset ansatte og deltidsansatte. Spørgsmålet blev, i hvilket omfang disse fleksible ansættelsesforhold blev fulgt af en høj sikkerhed i forhold til løn- og ansættelsesvilkår. Det er en markant forskellighed i forhold til den danske fl exicurity diskussion, hvor der har været fokus på, hvordan den 'normale' ansættelsesforhold både er fl eksibelt på grund af liberale ansættelses- og afskedigelsesregler og sikkert på grund af en relativt høj understøttelse ved ledighed og den aktive arbejdsmarkedspolitik. Inspireret af den hollandske tilgang til flexicurity vil det i denne artikel blive diskuteret, om vikarer på det danske arbejdsmarked er omfattet af flexicurity. Yderligere vil det blive diskuteret, hvorfor andelen af vikarer på det danske arbejdsmarked vokser markant i disse år, når vi nu har en meget fl eksibel regulering af ansættelser og afskedigelser.
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Hastings, Thomas, and Jason Heyes. "Farewell to flexicurity? Austerity and labour policies in the European Union." Economic and Industrial Democracy 39, no. 3 (March 2, 2016): 458–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143831x16633756.
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For the past decade the European Commission has urged EU member states to pursue ‘flexicurity’ policies aimed at achieving employment growth and social inclusion. However, the economic crisis and turn to austerity across the EU has presented the flexicurity model with a substantial challenge. This article argues that since 2008 labour policies across the EU have exhibited shared tendencies, but support for measures that might contribute to the achievement of the security aspects of flexicurity has been substantially weakened. In developing this argument, the article presents findings from a cluster analysis and detailed investigations of labour policies in EU member countries. The article also discusses the implications of the findings for comparative institutional analysis. It highlights differences in the approaches of countries that are commonly treated as members of the same institutional family, as well as similarities in the policies adopted by countries commonly associated with different ‘varieties’ of capitalism.
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Keane, Eddie. "The Flexicurity System in Ireland." European Labour Law Journal 7, no. 2 (June 2016): 310–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/201395251600700207.
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Boeri, Tito, J. Ignacio Conde-Ruiz, and Vincenzo Galasso. "THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FLEXICURITY." Journal of the European Economic Association 10, no. 4 (March 16, 2012): 684–715. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1542-4774.2012.01065.x.
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Stentoft, Jan, Ole Stegman Mikkelsen, and Jesper Kronborg Jensen. "Flexicurity and relocation of manufacturing." Operations Management Research 9, no. 3-4 (May 27, 2016): 133–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12063-016-0110-3.
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Muda, Merle. "Estonian Labour Law Reform: The Successful Implementation of the Idea of Flexicurity?" International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 26, Issue 3 (September 1, 2010): 347–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/ijcl2010021.
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Over the past ten years, the EU has been seeking ways to increase the adaptability of employees and enterprises and the flexibility of labour markets. Since 2006, the keyword has been flexicurity, and the implementation of this concept is intended to achieve the desired changes in labour relations. Accordingly, Estonia has attempted to reform labour relations in the light of the idea of flexicurity and adopted the Employment Contracts Act in 2008. This law comprises several amendments, the aim of which is to make labour relations more secure and flexible. This article focuses on the reforms that have had the greatest impact on the functioning of labour relations: the form of employment contracts; entering into and termination of fixed-term employment contracts; the employer’s obligation to provide training; the employer’s right to reduce wages; and the termination of the employment contact at the initiative of the employer. The author analyses whether the implementation of the idea of flexicurity has been successful with regard to these issues.
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Bredgaard, Thomas, Flemming Larsen, and Per Kongshøj Madsen. "Opportunities and challenges for flexicurity - The Danish example." Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 12, no. 1 (February 2006): 61–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/102425890601200107.
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The contraction of two previously opposed concepts, ‘flexibility’ and ‘security’, into that of flexicurity has become one of the most popular labour market concepts in recent years, and one that seems to cross European borders relatively easily. Seen in an international perspective, Denmark is characterised by a relatively flexible labour market and an extensive social security system. It is widely assumed that these favourable results are due to the special Danish combination of flexible employment regulations, an active labour market policy including rights and duties of education and placement, and relatively high unemployment benefits. In recent years the concept flexicurity has come to be used to describe the particular Danish mix of labour market flexibility and social security. Against this background, this article outlines the economic and political characteristics of the Danish ‘flexicurity model’, and the current challenges facing this model. Finally, the lessons that other European countries can learn from this Danish model will be presented.
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Vielle, Pascale, and Jean-Michel Bonvin. "Putting security at the heart of the European social pact – proposals to make flexicurity more balanced." Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 14, no. 3 (January 1, 2008): 419–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/102425890801400306.
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The concept of flexicurity opens up new avenues for rethinking our approach to social integration and security for Europe's citizens. In the current European debate, however, flexicurity is out of balance on two levels: it leans too far towards flexibility at the expense of security, and it is too focused on the labour market (and increasing employment rates) at the expense of other aspects of quality of life. This article suggests ways to rebalance flexicurity, giving more substance to ‘security’. In particular it proposes that, in addition to the mutualisation typically found in conventional social security strategies, services of general interest and time and space policies should also be developed. It recommends the negotiation of a new social pact in which all partners (not just the social partners) should have their say. The conclusion highlights the particular role of the EU in promoting harmonising measures and establishing new instruments for security and different ways of approaching public funding and investment.
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Madsen, Per Kongshøj. "Flexicurity i modvind — en analyse af den danske flexicurity-model under den økonomiske krise1." Tidsskrift for Arbejdsliv 13, no. 4 (December 1, 2011): 8–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/tfa.v13i4.108893.
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Den danske arbejdsmarkedsmodel blev i 1990'erne og begyndelsen af 2000-årene et forbillede for den europæiske beskæftigelsesstrategi og et ofte citeret eksempel på en flexicurity-model fra det virkelige liv, der kombinerede et fleksibelt arbejdsmarked med lav ansættelsesbeskyttelse med en høj grad af social tryghed. Men ligesom de fleste andre europæiske lande havnede Danmark i 2008 i en dyb økonomisk krise. Dette har skabt debat om muligheden for at opretholde grundelementerne i den danske model. Nogle har tillige hævdet, at modellen i sig selv gør dansk beskæftigelse mere sårbar over for økonomisk afmatning netop på grund af den lave ansættelsesbeskyttelse. Disse problemstillinger er i fokus i denne artikel, som beskriver de økonomiske og politiske reaktioner på den økonomiske krise ud fra et flexicurity-perspektiv.
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Potužáková, Zuzana, and Stanislava Mildeová. "Systems Approach to Concept of Flexicurity." Politická ekonomie 59, no. 2 (April 1, 2011): 224–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.18267/j.polek.782.
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Vulkan, Patrik, Antti Saloniemi, Jørgen Svalund, and Anna Väisänen. "Job Insecurity and Mental Well-Being in Finland, Norway, and Sweden." Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies 5, no. 2 (June 26, 2015): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.19154/njwls.v5i2.4792.
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This article describes how the flexicurity arrangement of low job security, high employment security, and good income security advocated by various authors affects the mental well-being of employees. Data are derived from a survey carried out in 2010–2011 among employees in Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The main findings are that all three forms of cognitive security (the perceived risk) have an independent effect on mental well-being and that the worry of insecurity (the affective component) mediates the relationship with mental well-being. The interaction effects show that high levels of employment security can alleviate the detrimental effects of job insecurity on mental well-being. No similar interaction effect was found with job insecurity and income security. The results are discussed in relation to the institutional arrangements of the Nordic countries’ welfare states, concluding that the high employment security needed for a successful flexicurity arrangement requires either low levels of unemployment or effective and extensive active labor market programs. Flexicurity is thus susceptible to economic turmoil and requires further labor market investments, even in the Nordic countries.
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Rönnmar, Mia. "Swedish Employment Protection in Times of Flexicurity Policies and Economic Crisis." International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 28, Issue 4 (January 21, 2012): 443–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/ijcl2012024.
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In the wake of increasing globalization and economic and financial crisis, the balance between flexibility and security - flexicurity - is central to European employment policies and the modernization of EU labour law in the different Member States of the EU. Common principles of flexibility have been adopted, and different pathways to flexicurity have been outlined. The aim of this paper is to critically analyse developments in Swedish employment protection regulation, with a special focus on dismissals for reasons of redundancy, in light of the EU flexicurity discourse. The notions of employability and equal treatment come to the fore. Central research questions involve the design and content of employment protection regulation and employment protection and employability within collective bargaining and the industrial relations system. Attention is paid to recent changes and developments in legislation, case law and collective bargaining, and to whether employment protection is being deregulated. The paper integrates labour law and industrial relations approaches, and encompasses analyses of legal materials at different levels, as well as industrial relations aspects.
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Bubak, Oldrich. "Flexicurity and the dynamics of the welfare state adjustments." Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 24, no. 4 (June 21, 2018): 387–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1024258918781732.
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The disruptions of the recent global financial crisis intensified a number of industrial and economic challenges and brought forward a set of often contradictory solutions. Here, we focus on two alternative views on how to (re)establish economic competitiveness and enable growth – flexicurity and austerity. There is much to be learned about the future of these conflicting recipes across changing political economies, particularly considering the importance of the social partners in the development of flexicurity, and their differential ability to influence welfare state outcomes more broadly. Two questions emerge. Attentive to the role and capacity of the social partners, what can we learn about the dynamics of the ongoing welfare state adjustments? How do we make sense of labour market politics in this paradoxical environment? In order to help answer these, we visit the United Kingdom and Denmark – one state offering modest social and employment security, the other a paragon of flexicurity – and find their divergent philosophies, institutional development, and organisational interactions explain not only their respective choices in the aftermath of the crisis, but also their prospects for socially oriented labour policies.
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Pejatović, Aleksandra, and Tamara Kunić. "Obrazovanje odraslih kao faktor ostvarivanja koncepta fleksigurnosti." Obrazovanje odraslih/Adult Education 12, no. 2 2012 (2012): 9–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.53617/issn2744-2047.2012.12.2.9.
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The term, more frequently occurring in the last few years in the European documents dealing with different aspects and possible development trends of employment policy primarly aimed at reducing the growing unemployment rate, is ''flexicurity''. The essence of this concept, which is becoming more and more current with the world economic crisis, is the employees, in order to maintain this status, have to express, meaning that they have to be trained for flexibility reflected in readiness for, and thus largely for the possibility for frequent job changes and changes of institutions and organisations in which they work, as well as for continuous knowledge acqusition and development of skills and competences. In addition, the flexicurity concept also emphasises the necessity of providing security, through the role of the state in the form of providing sufficient job position, enabling the emloyment of a larger number of people under good conditions and providing strong support in case of unployment. The subject of this paper is studying the role of adult education in implementing the flexicurity concept. As a manifestation of lifelong learning, adult education has a key role in acquiring knowledge, skills and competences, which is why it has long become a strong factor of economic development, increase of competitiveness, employability and employment. In line with the aforementioned subject, the aim of this paper is to, by analysis of the relevant literature and European documents devoted in different ways and in varying degrees to the flexicurity concept, explore the role of adult education in implementing this concept.