Search for dissertations about: "Flexicurity"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the word Flexicurity.

  2. 1. The Microfundations of Flexicurity : Employees’ well-being and attitudes to labour market policy in a Swedish and Nordic welfare state setting

    Author : Patrik Vulkan; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Flexicurity; job insecurity; mental well-being; mentemployment security; income security; cognitive and affective insecurity; insider outsider divide; labour market policy; labour market paradigms; policy preferences;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the microfoundations of flexicurity, an arrangement of policies that proponents claim can deliver a ‘win-win’ situation in the labour market. These policies include lax employment protection legislation (EPL) to provide employers the flexibility to hire and fire with ease, and others supposed to provide employees with a high level of ‘employment security’ (high ability to find new quality jobs if they lose their current job) and ‘income security’ (low likelihood of suffering economically during periods of transition between jobs). READ MORE

  4. 2. Earning, caring, and the quest for sustainable societies : Toward stable evolution?

    Author : Pernilla Tunberger; Joakim Palme; Christina Bergqvist; Kimberly Morgan; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; work family reconciliation; family policy; labor market liberalization; flexicurity; gender; equality; social policy; institutional change; institutional analysis; feminist institutionalism; multiple equilibria; Statskunskap; Political Science;

    Abstract : This thesis studies changing conditions for earning and caring in Italy and Sweden, two cases out of a population of European welfare states facing similar challenges and processes of labor market liberalization affecting conditions for earning, but also for caring. Focus is on how such processes of change affect individual living conditions for earning and caring, as well as on how societies change as a result of changing individual living conditions. READ MORE