Flexicurity - A European approach to labour market policy

Intereconomics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 68-111

  Bekker, Sonja ^a   Wilthagen, Ton ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 42349103280     PISSN: 00205346     EISSN: 1613964X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10272-008-0244-0     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. See O. Blanchard: Is there a viable European social and economic model? Tilburg 2006, Tilburg University VanLanschot Lecture, 1 June 2006; A. Giddens: Europe in the Global Age, Cambridge 2007, Polity Press.
2. J. Goetschy: The implications of the Lisbon Strategy for the future of social Europe: 'on the road' or 'new age'? in: The International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 499-523.
3. Ibid.
4. European Expert Group on Flexicurity T. Wilthagen et al.: Flexicurity Pathways: Turning Hurdles into Stepping-Stones, Brussels 2007, Expert Report to the European Commission, June 2007.
5. See P. Hall, D. Soskice (eds): Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage, Oxford 2001, Oxford University Press, Introduction, p. 1.
6. R. Whitley: Divergent Capitalisms, Oxford 2000, Oxford University Press. For further references see: W. Arts, J. Gelissen: Three worlds of welfare capitalism or more? A state-of-the-art report, in: Journal of European Social Policy, Vol. 12, No. 2., 2002, pp.137-158.
7. G. Esping-Andersen: The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, Princeton 1990, Princeton University Press; G. Esping-Andersen: The Social Foundations of Post-industrial Economies, Oxford 1999, Oxford University Press; A. Sapir: Globalisation and the Reform of European Social Models, Brussels 2005, Bruegel Policy Brief, 2005, No.1.
8. K. Philips, R. Eamets: Approaches to flexicurity: EU models, Luxembourg 2007, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions; European Commission: Employment in Europe 2006 and European Employment 2007.
9. The relevance of the flexicurity concept for various parts of the EU is underlined by a recent book publication from the ILO: S. Cazes, A. Nesporova: Flexicurity. A relevant approach in Central and Eastern Europe, Geneva 2007, International Labour Of. ce.
10. The European Social partners also put this as a fifth element in their report Key challenges facing European labour markets: A joint analysis of European Social Partners, Brussels, October 2007.
11. Many more examples of flexicurity practices in the 27 Member States can be found in the report of the Rapporteur of the European Expert Group on Flexicurity, entitled Flexicurity Pathways (June 2007), http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/employment_strategy/pdf/ flexi_pathways_en.pdf
12. See e.g. European Commission: Employment in Europe 2006, Luxembourg 2006.
13. All figures presented in this section are based on Eurostat calculations.
14. See more comprehensively J. Visser, T. Wilthagen, R. Beltzer and E. Koot-van deF Putte: The Netherlands: from atypicality to typicality, in: S. Sciarra, P. Davies, M. Freedland (eds.): Employment Policy and the Regulation of Part-time Work in the European Union. A Comparative Analysis, Cambridge 2004, Cambridge University Press, pp. 19-223.
15. See also T. Wilthagen, FA Tros: The concept of 'flexicurity': a new approach to regulating employment and labour markets, in: Transfer, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2004, pp. 166-186.
16. T. Wilthagen, Mijke Houwerzijl: How does flexibility affect social cohesion? The Council of Europe's tree model revisited, in: Council of Europe: Reconciling labour flexibility with social cohesion - Facing the Challenge, Strasbourg 2005, Council of Europe (Trends in social cohesion, No. 15), pp. 109-131.
17. Data from Statistics Netherlands, using the national de. nition unemployment which differs from the international Eurostat de. nition. The main difference is that Statistics Netherlands only regards a person as unemployed if a person is actively looking for a job of at least 12 hours a week.
18. Data: Institute for Labour Studies (OSA), Tilburg, The Netherlands.
19. See e.g. IMF, Kingdom of the Netherlands: The Netherlands 2008 Article IV Consultation: Preliminary Conclusions,17 March 2008.