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Nurturing Digital Government Reform: Nuggets of Wisdom From a Global Frontrunner
ABSTRACT Government reform initiatives increasingly incorporate significant digital elements. This article builds on successful, long‐term Danish experiences with digital government reform and offers “nuggets of wisdom” to policymakers, organisations, and countries wishing to advance such reform. In international surveys, Denmark is consistently ranked
Ulrik B. U. Roehl, Andreas Berggreen
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Unemployment Benefits in the EU: The Commission's Approach
Abstract Unemployment insurance is a major component of European welfare regimes, whereby each EU member state has its own distinctive scheme. Despite falling under national competence, the European Commission has exercised pressure over this policy area since the establishment of the European Employment Strategy.
Igor Guardiancich +2 more
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From the Ideal Worker to the Inclusive Worker: Measuring Norm Shifts Within Occupational Contexts
ABSTRACT Research shows that the ideal worker norm—the masculine‐gendered expectation of unlimited work devotion—perpetuates class and gender inequality, increases turnover rates, and negatively affects job satisfaction and work–life balance. Occupational research typically measures this norm through the share of employees working full‐time or long ...
Jan Müller, Heejung Chung
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Vertical New Knowledge Transfer and the Revival of Multi‐Employer Collective Bargaining
ABSTRACT This paper addresses the puzzle of how and why multi‐employer bargaining has revived as a policy idea given the apparent dominance of neoliberalism. Multi‐employer bargaining has emerged as a solution to problems caused by failed neoliberal policies.
Søren Kaj Andersen, Chris F. Wright
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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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