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The notion of flexicurity promotes the idea of compensation of labour market deregulation (= flexibilization) with …. To monitor effects of flexicurity policies in Europe, flexicurity indicators are constructed. The European flexicurity …Das Konzept Flexicurity umfasst die Kompensation der Arbeitsmarktderegulierung (= Flexibilisierung) durch Fortschritte …
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The paper provides a theoretical rationale for flexicurity policies, which consist of low employment protection …, generous unemployment insurance and active labor market programmes. It analyzes in which conditions flexicurity can be optimal … flexicurity is optimal, and where it is not optimal. …
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This paper proposes a methodology for benchmarking unemployment benefits systems, with a view to assess reform needs and priorities. The methodology permits to assess different dimensions of unemployment benefit systems and to consider alternative relevant benchmarks. Looking at all relevant...
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The current unemployment insurance and employment protection legislation were set up in an environment in which relationships between workers and firms were typically long-lasting and stable. The increasing globalisation of the economy and the rapid technological and organisational changes...
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reformed to reconcile this new need of more flexibility with that of security for workers. The call for “flexicurity” is not …
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pillars of the `flexicurity' model. The optimal policy is characterized by (i) a progressive wage tax schedule; (ii) a wage …
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reformed to reconcile this new need of more flexibility with that of security for workers. The call for ”flexicurity” is not …
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The objective of this paper is to provide a political economy explanation of the empirically observed negative correlation between employment protection and insurance. We study an economy composed of four groups of agents (capitalists, unemployed people, low- and high-skilled workers), each one...
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