This book seeks to gain a better understanding of the paradoxical relationship between the
alleged need for European labour markets to become more flexible and the way in which …

This volume brings together a selection of papers that were written within the context of a
project funded by an EU Network. The core questions raised and discussed by the book are:(i) …

… Flexibility and employment security in Europe 1 labour markets in transition/ edited by Ruud
JA Muffels. … Flexibility and Employment Security in Europe: Labour Markets in Transition …

Given the normative European Employment Strategy (EES) discourse, it would be crucial to
measure to what extent the flexibility of work and of employment relationships1 and the …

The now very popular debate on ‘flexibility’and ‘security’in European academic and policy
circles mirrors the classical economic issue as to how policies can maintain or even improve …

… If we were to draw a scatter plot of the attained levels of flexibility and employment security
in Europe, we would expect to find that the countries’ scatter points would lie around the 45o …

Flexicurity represents a concept that aims at enhancing both labour market flexibility and
employment and income security. The European Union has picked up this concept in its …

This chapter examines how young people have been affected by the Great Recession. In
particular, it analyzes the relationship between labor market flexibility and the income security …

The term ‘industrial relations’ emerged as denoting a specialized field of study in the mid
20th century, initially as an Anglo A merican concept. During the 1960s it spread to other …

The origins of the concept of flexicurity, which emerged in the mid 1990s, have to be seen in
a historical context of labour market and welfare state developments. In many Western …