Mitigating labour market dualism : single open-ended labour contract and other instruments : study in focus

In the European context, non-standard employment, and fixed-term contracts most notably, have emerged as a response to the deregulation 'at the margin' of the labour market, legalising and liberalising the use of temporary types of work over the last decades. Given the negative side-effects of labour market dualism between temporary and permanent employment, the debate about a more balanced regulatory model of European labour markets has a longer tradition in EU-level discourse and policy strategies (e.g. Flexicurity approach, European Pillar of Social Rights).