The concept of Flexicurity has been receiving much attention as the European social model. One of the most important concepts within the flexicurity approach is employment security, the security of having secure and continuous employment career, which may entail changing employers and jobs. How...

For mainstream economics, rigidities in the labour market are the primary determinants of high and persistent long-term unemployment rates, leading to the need to reform labour market institutions and make them more flexible. Flexible labour markets would not only help to smooth normal business...

One way of simultaneously increasing work-life balance while keeping costs down for both governments and companies is the use of flexible working-time arrangements (flexitime). Though flexitime plays an increasingly prominent role in occupational welfare not much is known about its provision,...

The geo-strategic consequences of what the medical profession nowadays calls “a pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin” are nearly beyond our imaginations. In this article we show that the world faces the stark perspective of a global pandemic, which, if...

This paper analyzes the last financial crisis in the perspective of financial innovation focussing on the dynamics of systemic externalities in banking. After discussing the peculiar nature of banking and its external effects to society, it shows that one major determinant of the financial...

Typologies of welfare state regimes place France and Germany on the one hand, and the United States on the other in very different categories. All nevertheless share an essential feature: they traditionally depend on business for both the funding and management of health insurance. It is the...