as a model for the European Employment Strategy and a much cited example of a real life flexicurity model. Like most … other European countries Denmark has now fallen into a deep economic crisis. This has created debates about the ability of …

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. …

Flexicurity represents a concept that aims at enhancing both labour market flexibility and employment and income … number of its member states. This paper describes the way that flexicurity has developed in the Dutch context. The core of … unemployment and high labour market participation the Netherlands faces further challenges with regard to flexicurity and security …

Denmark is often highlighted as a "flexicurity" country with lax employment protection legislation, generous …