Flexicurity in crisis: European labour market policies in a time of austerity
- 27 January 2013
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in European Journal of Industrial Relations
- Vol. 19 (1), 71-86
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0959680112474749
Abstract
This article compares labour market policies implemented by EU member states in response to the economic crisis that erupted in 2008. It also considers the implications of the crisis for the European Commission’s flexicurity agenda. The discussion focuses on Ireland, the UK, Germany and the Czech Republic. The article demonstrates that responses to the crisis have been shaped by established features of national employment regimes in the four countries; but each employment regime is also affected by the implementation of austerity measures, which undermine conditions for implementing those components of flexicurity that have appealed most to trade unions.Keywords
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