The notion of flexicurity promotes the idea of compensation of labour market deregulation (= flexibilization) with advantages in employment and social security. The paper contains a brief history of the concept and its operational definition. To monitor effects of flexicurity policies in Europe,...

Vor dem Hintergrund veränderter technologischer und ökonomischer Rahmenbedingungen weltweit gerät das deutsche Arbeitsrechtssystem unter Druck. Unbefristete Vollzeitarbeitsplätze mit einem relativ hohen rechtlichen Bestandsschutzniveau stehen im Mittelpunkt der Flexibilisierungsdebatte....

Increasing signs seem to indicate that, in the areas of both politics and thought, the age of neoliberal supremacy is approaching its end. An ideology based exclusively on the free play of the market is bound, ultimately, to lose its attraction. Growing inequality and social exclusion, with new...

In den 1970er Jahren setzte europaweit eine Zunahme an selbstständiger Erwerbsarbeit ein, die so genannte "Renaissance der Selbstständigkeit". In dem vorliegenden Band wird dieser Trend nach verschiedenen wirtschaftlichen, strukturellen und sozialen Kriterien im Ländervergleich (Deutschland,...

Dauer, Lage und Verteilung der Arbeitszeit haben sich in den letzten Jahren tiefgreifend verändert. In allen drei Dimensionen ist die Arbeitszeit flexibler geworden. Arbeitszeitkonten oder neue Modelle der Vertrauensarbeitszeit haben die eher starren Zeitrhythmen der Normalarbeitszeit abgelöst...

This study reviews and evaluates the major contributory and noncontributory social protection programs that are currently in place as part of the government's portfolio of social protection interventions, including social insurance (SSS, GSIS, PhilHealth), social welfare programs (e.g., Pantawid...

This paper reviews the current state of and challenges facing social protection in the Philippines. It describes the social protection institutions and the schemes that have been developed throughout the years. It also provides an assessment focusing on coverage, administration, and management....

It is well-known that individuals born in different periods of time (cohorts)exhibit different wealth accumulation paths. While previous studies have usedcohort dummies to proxy for this fact, research in this area suffers from aserious identification problem, i.e., how to disentangle age, time,...

The paper focuses on the social safety nets in Russian Federation and Ukraine in the view of changes on the labour market since the beginning of economic transition. We showed that many past phenomena (e.g. restructuring of the economy, wage and pension arrears, new groups at-risk-of-poverty,...

The employer`s payroll contribution for pension system relief has been one of the most important topic on the debate about social security. Some advocates that the traditional source of funds for pension system tends to undergo a process of erosion.And there are critics, who argue that there is...