The paper concerns the definition and testing of flexicurity indicators for the public sector in Europe and in particular the public administration sector. The main aim is to elaborate a methodology based on static and dynamic institutional and outcome indicators to assess how well the public...

The study examines the influence of values, social norms and labour law and social security institutions on the decision to exit the labour market and to give up job security and even some income security for early retirement. The paper analyses transitions out of work into various alternative...

As regards labour-market reform and employment policies, the European Union currently touts the concept of 'flexicurity', aiming at simultaneously enhancing both flexibility and security in the labour market in view of the globalization of the economy and far-reaching demographic developments...

This paper describes and analyses in depth the Dutch example of simultaneous deregulation and re-regulation of the temporary agency market. It is argued that this 'flexicurity deal' represents a trade-off between enhanced external-numerical flexibility on the one hand, notably flexibility in...

This paper presents and discusses various modalities of labour market flexibility and security. The focus is on employment protection legislation, part-time work and temporary agency work, drawing evidence and examples from the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain and the United States. The main thrust...

This paper discusses the recently coined concept of flexicurity. It is outlined how this concept gained importance in legislative and labour market policy reform in the Netherlands, linking a number of previously separated areas of policy-making such as flexibilization and deregulation of the...

The essay, written on the occasion of Tilburg University's Dies Natalis 2018, explores the added value of interdisciplinary collaboration for science, university, and society. It argues that interdisciplinary collaboration is a prerequisite for science to contribute to major problems – wicked...

This paper deals with the new policy concept of flexicurity in view of the emerging flexibility-security nexus that the European Union, national governments, sectors of industry, individual companies and workers are currently facing. On the one hand there is a strong demand for further...

This paper deals with the flexicurity approach as developed at the European level. It firstly reviews the emergenge of this EU perspective on combining social and economic goals. Secondly the paper discusses how the concept of flexicurity pathways responds to the necessity of combining these...