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Ton Wilthagen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Flexicurity a european approach to labour market policy
Intereconomics, 2008Co-Authors: Sonja Bekker, Ton Wilthagen, Maarten Keune, Per Kongshøj Madsen, Jianping Zhou, Ralf Rogowski, Andranik TangianAbstract:This paper deals with the Flexicurity approach as developed at the European level. It firstly reviews the emergenge of this EU perspective on combining social and economic goals. Secondly the paper discusses how the concept of Flexicurity pathways responds to the necessity of combining these goals in various ways, depending on the national labour market situation. Thirdly the Netherlands are taken as a concrete national illustration of how lessons can be learned and presented from the Flexicurity pathways methodology, also stressing that in practice a country can seek inspiration from more than one ideal typical pathway.
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the concept of Flexicurity a new approach to regulating employment and labour markets
2008Co-Authors: Ton Wilthagen, F H TrosAbstract:This paper deals with the new policy concept of Flexicurity in view of the emerging flexibility-security nexus that the European Union, national governments, sectors of industry, individual companies and workers are currently facing. On the one hand there is a strong demand for further flexibilisation of labour markets, employment and the work organisation. At same time, an equally strong demand exists for providing security to employees - especially vulnerable groups - and for preserving social cohesion in our societies. This paper discusses the origins, conditions en potential of Flexicurity as policy or strategy at various levels of industrial relations that explicitly addresses this nexus. Besides the paper outlines a research agenda with respect to the Flexicurity phenomenon.
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the concept of Flexicurity a new approach to regulating employment and labour markets
Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 2004Co-Authors: Ton Wilthagen, F H TrosAbstract:This article deals with the new policy concept of ‘Flexicurity’ in view of the emerging flexibility-security nexus currently faced by the European Union, national governments, sectors of industry, individual companies and workers. On the one hand there is a strong demand to make labour markets, employment and work organisation more flexible. At same time, an equally strong demand exists for providing security to employees – especially vulnerable groups – and for preserving social cohesion in our societies. Policy-makers, legislators, trade unions and employers’ organisations have a strong need for new theory-inspired policy models and concepts that promise to reconcile these goals of enhancing both flexibility and security that at first sight seem incompatible. This article discusses the origins, conditions and potential of ‘Flexicurity’ as policy or strategy at various levels of industrial relations. It also outlines a research agenda.
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Flexicurity a new paradigm for labour market policy reform
1998Co-Authors: Ton WilthagenAbstract:This paper discusses the recently coined concept of Flexicurity. It is outlined how this concept gained importance in legislative and labour market policy reform in the Netherlands, linking a number of previously separated areas of policy-making such as flexibilization and deregulation of the labour market on the one hand and social security and the concern for the negative consequences of flexible employment on the other hand. Second, the paper explores the relevance and significance of the concept to a theory of transitional labour markets. It is suggested that 'Flexicurity', as a trade off or new balance between labour market flexibility and increased security for workers (especially those in precarious situations) might define more precisely and accurately the legal, social and perhaps even psychological conditions under which labour markets can become truly transitional, i.e. triggering, fostering and safeguarding transitions between employment and other distinct social systems such as private households, education, retirement and unemployment. In this way, Flexicurity could be considered as an implementation strategy for transitional labour markets.
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Flexicurity a new paradigm for labour market policy reform
Social Science Research Network, 1998Co-Authors: Ton WilthagenAbstract:This paper discusses the recently coined concept of Flexicurity. It is outlined how this concept gained importance in legislative and labour market policy reform in the Netherlands, linking a number of previously separated areas of policy-making such as flexibilization and deregulation of the labour market on the one hand and social security and the concern for the negative consequences of flexible employment on the other hand. Second, the paper explores the relevance and significance of the concept to a theory of transitional labour markets. It is suggested that 'Flexicurity', as a trade off or new balance between labour market flexibility and increased security for workers (especially those in precarious situations) might define more precisely and accurately the legal, social and perhaps even psychological conditions under which labour markets can become truly transitional, i.e. triggering, fostering and safeguarding transitions between employment and other distinct social systems such as private households, education, retirement and unemployment.
Margaret Whitehead - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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do Flexicurity policies work for people with low education and health problems a comparison of labour market policies and employment rates in denmark the netherlands sweden and the united kingdom 1990 2010
International Journal of Health Services, 2015Co-Authors: Ashley Mcallister, Lotta Nylen, Mona C Backhans, Katarina Boye, Karsten Thielen, Margaret WhiteheadAbstract:People with limiting longstanding illness and low education may experience problems in the labor market. Reduced employment protection that maintains economic security for the individual, known as "Flexicurity," has been proposed as a way to increase overall employment. We compared the development of labor market policies and employment rates from 1990 to 2010 in Denmark and the Netherlands (representing Flexicurity), the United Kingdom, and Sweden. Employment rates in all countries were much lower in the target group than for other groups over the study period. However, "Flexicurity" as practiced in Denmark, far from being a "magic bullet," appeared to fail low-educated people with longstanding illness in particular. The Swedish policy, on the other hand, with higher employment protection and higher economic security, particularly earlier in the study period, led to higher employment rates in this group. Findings also revealed that economic security policies in all countries were eroding and shifting toward individual responsibility. Finally, results showed that active labor market policies need to be subcategorized to better understand which types are best suited for the target group. Increasing employment among the target group could reduce adverse health consequences and contribute to decreasing inequalities in health.
Amparo Serrano Pascual - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Flexicurity and the semantic transformation of the concept of security the modernisation of the spanish social protection
International Journal of Society Systems Science, 2012Co-Authors: Carlos Jesus Fernandez Rodriguez, Paz Martin Martin, Amparo Serrano PascualAbstract:During the last decade, Flexicurity has appeared as the cornerstone to face the problems of vulnerability and social exclusion. In order to preserve the adaptation to the ‘taken for granted’ need to change and the capacity to re-define competences and skills of employees, the regulatory frames of the labour markets have undertaken a deep political and axiological transformation. This paper – based on an ongoing research project – will explore these new models of governance in the Spanish context focusing on how Flexicurity has been translated and developed by the public employment agencies. These developments have enhanced the ‘de-politisation’ of work and strengthened the ‘psychologisation’ of social protection.
Lotta Nylen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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do Flexicurity policies work for people with low education and health problems a comparison of labour market policies and employment rates in denmark the netherlands sweden and the united kingdom 1990 2010
International Journal of Health Services, 2015Co-Authors: Ashley Mcallister, Lotta Nylen, Mona C Backhans, Katarina Boye, Karsten Thielen, Margaret WhiteheadAbstract:People with limiting longstanding illness and low education may experience problems in the labor market. Reduced employment protection that maintains economic security for the individual, known as "Flexicurity," has been proposed as a way to increase overall employment. We compared the development of labor market policies and employment rates from 1990 to 2010 in Denmark and the Netherlands (representing Flexicurity), the United Kingdom, and Sweden. Employment rates in all countries were much lower in the target group than for other groups over the study period. However, "Flexicurity" as practiced in Denmark, far from being a "magic bullet," appeared to fail low-educated people with longstanding illness in particular. The Swedish policy, on the other hand, with higher employment protection and higher economic security, particularly earlier in the study period, led to higher employment rates in this group. Findings also revealed that economic security policies in all countries were eroding and shifting toward individual responsibility. Finally, results showed that active labor market policies need to be subcategorized to better understand which types are best suited for the target group. Increasing employment among the target group could reduce adverse health consequences and contribute to decreasing inequalities in health.
Mona C Backhans - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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do Flexicurity policies work for people with low education and health problems a comparison of labour market policies and employment rates in denmark the netherlands sweden and the united kingdom 1990 2010
International Journal of Health Services, 2015Co-Authors: Ashley Mcallister, Lotta Nylen, Mona C Backhans, Katarina Boye, Karsten Thielen, Margaret WhiteheadAbstract:People with limiting longstanding illness and low education may experience problems in the labor market. Reduced employment protection that maintains economic security for the individual, known as "Flexicurity," has been proposed as a way to increase overall employment. We compared the development of labor market policies and employment rates from 1990 to 2010 in Denmark and the Netherlands (representing Flexicurity), the United Kingdom, and Sweden. Employment rates in all countries were much lower in the target group than for other groups over the study period. However, "Flexicurity" as practiced in Denmark, far from being a "magic bullet," appeared to fail low-educated people with longstanding illness in particular. The Swedish policy, on the other hand, with higher employment protection and higher economic security, particularly earlier in the study period, led to higher employment rates in this group. Findings also revealed that economic security policies in all countries were eroding and shifting toward individual responsibility. Finally, results showed that active labor market policies need to be subcategorized to better understand which types are best suited for the target group. Increasing employment among the target group could reduce adverse health consequences and contribute to decreasing inequalities in health.