Activation measures in Finland have meant the weakening of the level, qualification criteria, coverage, and time limits of social benefits in a way inimical to the post-Second World War Nordic welfare model. These changes have been accompanied by a growth of labour market flexibility, of...

The no-reform of the Italian labour market. Many different and passionate comments have been published in the past weeks about the Italian labour market reform. The topic is for sure very relevant from the economic and political perspective, and it is also a sort of “litmus paper†of...

The aim of this paper is to show quantity and structure spending from Labour Fund for labour market programmes, number and structure unemployed under these programmes and their effectiveness in Poland in 2005-2009. In this period there was a significant increase in spending from Labour Fund for...

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 worlds'. In this review the development of the concept will be set against the background of changed economic...

The current study analyzes the status of both the European and the Bulgarian labor markets from the standpoint of the effects of the current crisis, which has affected the supply and demand of labor as well as the employment structure. It further examines the anti-crisis policies, which have...

The paper is an overview of over 30 publications on six models with flexicurity indicators developed at the Hans-Böckler-Foundation for monitoring and analysis of flexicurity. The latter is a new European labour market policy which should compensate the ongoing flexibilization of employment...