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Global Labour Governance by Numbers: A Comparison of the ILO and OECD
ABSTRACT The emergence of governance by numbers (GBN) has seen the increasing use of metrics to influence government and corporate behaviour, but its uptake varies significantly across international organisations. This study examines the adoption of GBN in global labour governance at the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Organisation for ...
Vicente Silva, Huw Thomas, John Berten
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Flexicurity strategies on the economic crisis background
• The flexicurity concept – a combination of flexibility and security strategies, specific to each country – is a successful outcome[1] of the 2010 Lisbon Strategy.
Daniela PAŞNICU, Luise MLADEN
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Cui prodest? A firm‐level analysis of hiring credits
ABSTRACT In the aftermath of the Great Recession, hiring credits have become popular worldwide. The empirical literature shows positive but moderate effects of such interventions on employment. However, an in‐depth analysis of the characteristics of the beneficiary firms and their wage‐setting policies is still lacking.
Edoardo Santoni +2 more
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COMPARATIVE STUDY ON LABOR MARKET FLEXICURITY AUSTRIA - ROMANIA [PDF]
Present in the European political discourse in the early '90s, the concept of flexicurity, achieved by the contraction of two terms, flexibility and security, emerged in the European Union with the adoption of the Communication "Towards Common Principles
Alexandru Avram, Costin Daniel Avram
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The impact of labor market reforms on firm training for nonregular and regular workers
Abstract Nonstandard employment is typically associated with reduced opportunities for workers to accumulate human capital via job training. One policy response is to require equal access to training for nonstandard employees. In this study, we investigate the impact of a 2007 Korean labor‐market reform that required such access for nonstandard ...
Hyejin Ko, Andrew Weaver
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SOME REFLECTIONS ON FLEXICURITY-THE EUROPEAN APPROACH TO LABOUR MARKET POLICY [PDF]
The notion of “flexicurity†promises to overcome the tensions between the labour market flexibility on the one hand and social security on the other hand, by offering “the best of both worldsâ€.
Ionete Anca
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FLEXICURE LABOUR MARKET STRUCTURES – THE GRETCHENFRAGE OF THEIR ADDED VALUE
The article discusses the added value of social policy approaches which can be characterized as ‘flexicure’ based on a comparison of Germany and Austria.
Christina Hiessl
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The European Semester as a Policy Instrument in Education—The Cases of Spain and Sweden
ABSTRACT In this article we examine the European Semester as an innovative form of policy coordination, with distinct effects on education and skills policies for Member States. We analyse the Semester's framing of education policy, and examine its manifestations in Spain and Sweden, two countries considered to be different in their approach to ...
Xavier Rambla, Nafsika Alexiadou
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The importance of individual self-governance in labour law [PDF]
According to László Kelemen, a contract is a lex contractus, a real source of law, when material right enables human self-determination to create law.
Jakab Nóra I.
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Job Insecurity and Mental Well-Being in Finland, Norway, and Sweden
This article describes how the flexicurity arrangement of low job security, high employment security, and good income security advocated by various authors affects the mental well-being of employees.
Patrik Vulkan +3 more
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