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Defining and testing flexicurity indicators in Europe: How well performs the Dutch labour market comparably?

Chung, Heejung and Muffels, Rudd and Wilthagen, Ton (2009) Defining and testing flexicurity indicators in Europe: How well performs the Dutch labour market comparably? Working paper. Tilburg, Tilburg, Netherlands (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:38345)

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Abstract

The paper concerns the definition and testing of institutional and outcome

indicators on flexibility and income and employment security. The aim is to

develop dynamic outcome indicators for measuring the performance of

countries on balancing flexibility and security in the EU and in particular to

assess how well the Netherlands perform comparably to other countries in

this respect. We first elaborated a conceptual model based on Sen’s capability

approach and used this model to arrive at the definition of particular dynamic

indicators. Then we explain the indicators we want to use and how they are

calculated using the SILC data sets. In the second part we examine how the

Netherlands according to these indicators perform in terms of balancing

flexibility and security comparably. On the basis of the mapping of the

Netherlands on the various institutional and dynamic outcome indicators, we

formulate some conclusions with respect to research on the causal modelling

of transitions and to examine the effect of institutions on these transitions. In

the end we formulate the main challenges the Netherlands face in the domain

of flexicurity.

Report for the Dutch Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs/OSA report A236: OSA: Tilburg.

Item Type: Reports and Papers (Working paper)
Uncontrolled keywords: flexicurity, income, employment security, panel data, outcome indicators, institutions, labour market performance, the Netherlands
Subjects: H Social Sciences
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research
Depositing User: Mita Mondal
Date Deposited: 17 Feb 2014 16:44 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:14 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/38345 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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