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“Take it or leave it: flexible working-time arrangements and the synchronization of business cycle and life cycle”

Klammer, Ute and Wilthagen, Ton and Chung, Heejung and Thiel, Anke (2008) “Take it or leave it: flexible working-time arrangements and the synchronization of business cycle and life cycle”. Working paper. European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions,, Luxembourg. (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:38460)

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Abstract

While the life course perspective has often been neglected in labour market and social policy research, it is now very much – but sometimes implicitly - present in European labour market policy. The grown interest in education and training within the concepts of “lifelong learning” and of an “investive social policy” are indicators of this perspective. The goals of the Lisbon strategy to increase the labour market participation of older workers and the actual retirement age (Barcelona and Stockholm targets, see Commission of the European Communities 2003) have also increased the need to focus on work biographies, on the long term employability of workers and on sustainability in the working world. Accordingly the European Directives for the national action plans explicitly state: “this requires developing comprehensive national strategies based on a life course approach” (Council of the European Commission 2003, paragraph 15).

While a general framework for the life course perspective can be set on the national level (e.g. by adjusting legal arrangements), other actors also play a decisive role when it comes to the implementation of the life course perspective:the social partners can add on the legal framework by regulations in collective agreements, and it is in particular the company that determines issues that are decisive for the life-course perspective of workers, such as working-time arrangements and training options.

Item Type: Reports and Papers (Working paper)
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: 25 Feb 2014 09:07 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:14 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/38460 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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