This paper explores the reasons behind the differences in the use and provision of different types of working time flexibility options of companies across European labour markets with a special focus on the country differences. Competing theories on the cross-country variances of labour market...

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...

The European Union benchmarking tool for flexicurity policies and practices consists of four indices concerning lifelong learning (LLL), active labour market policies (ALMP), modern social security systems (MSS), and flexible and reliable labour contracts (FCA). Multi-level analysis techniques...

This paper deals with the topic of company restructuring from a European flexicurity perspective. We first describe the European discourses on flexicurity and company restructuring. This shows that the emphasis lies especially on employment security and income security, which in the case of...

Working time flexibility comprises a wide variety of arrangements, from part-time, overtime, to long-term leaves. Theoretical approaches to grouping these arrangements have been developed, but empirical underpinnings are rare. This paper investigates the bundles that can be found for various...

This paper explores the reasons behind the differences in the use and provision of different types of working time flexibility options of companies across European labour markets with a special focus on the country differences. Competing theories on the cross-country variances of labour market...