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implementation of the Flexicurity model. Combining flexibility with security, this controversial concept combines a flexible labour …
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Flexicurity is at the heart of European policy debates. Its aim is to overcome the tensions between labour market … into whether flexicurity policies have been adopted across the European Union. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to … analyse to what extent labour market policies have been reformed along the lines of the flexicurity concept across 18 European …
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The presented article deals with labour market institutions and labour market flexibility in the Visegrád countries. We can find out in theoretical literature a traditional set of institutional aspects such as employment protection legislation, structure of wage bargaining, taxation of labour,...
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The presented article deals with labour market institutions and labour market performance in the European Union. The first chapter is devoted to theoretical and methodological background of labour market performance. Theoretical literature has created a set of institutional aspects such as...
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of a comprehensive strategy of labour market reforms ("flexicurity") that shift the focus from protection on the job to …
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labor market dynamism and relatively high social protection –the so-called flexicurity approach. The Danish model of … flexicurity points to a third way between the flexibility often attributed to deregulated Anglo-Saxon countries and strict job … protection characterising Southern European countries. In this paper, the Danish case of flexicurity will be analyzed and the …
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This paper investigates whether any significant differences in the job satisfaction of high- and low-paid workers exist in eleven European labour markets. Using data from six waves (1996-2001) of the ECHP, it is shown that low-paid employees are significantly less satisfied with their jobs...
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future of Europe. After 2005, this polarized and antagonistic discourse started to change. The rise of flexicurity, as a new …
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Flexicurity is a new way of looking at flexibility and security on the labor market. It sets out from the awareness … employment. Flexicurity is an attempt to unite these two fundamental needs. Flexicurity promotes a combination of flexible labor … maintain and improve competitiveness whilst preserving the European social model. Flexicurity can be defined, more precisely …
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This paper suggests that the insufficient work experience of young people as compared to adults is the major cause of the hardship the former experience in the labour market both in terms of employment and wages. Economists are bewildered as to the determinants of and as to the ways to cure the...
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