Centre for Labour Market Research, Aalborg University, Denmark (CARMA) Flexicurity: What is it all about and can any lessons be learned? Per Kongshøj Madsen Centre for Labour Market Research (CARMA) Aalborg University www.carma.aau.dk Presentation at the conference: Responding to the Great Recession : Labor Market Policies in Europe and the U.S. Rutgers University Friday November 19, 2010
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Centre for Labour Market Research,
Aalborg University, Denmark (CARMA)
Flexicurity:
What is it all about and can
any lessons be learned?Per Kongshøj Madsen
Centre for Labour Market Research (CARMA)
Aalborg University
www.carma.aau.dk
Presentation at the conference:
Responding to the Great Recession :
Labor Market Policies in Europe and the U.S.
Rutgers University Friday November 19, 2010
Overview
• A blend of flexibility and security:
flexicurity
• Flexicurity the Danish way
• Can you learn flexicurity?
• Flexicurity and the European Union
The basics of flexicurity
• The starting point: Flexibility and security are
not contradictions, but can be mutually
supportive
• Originally a Dutch concept from the 1990s
(with academic content added by professor
Ton Wilthagen, Tilburg University)
• Against both common sense and mainstream
economic theory
Rapidly rising media interest
Source: Infomedia
References to flexicurity in Danish media 2001-2008
Number of references to "flexicurity"
in seven nationwide Danish newspapers 2001-2009
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And international research
Source: Number of new references to”flexicurity” on google.scholar.com