Labour market flexibility and security in the EU

Ignjatović, Miroljub (author)

The article deals with the profound changes (reducing various forms of security) that modern European labour markets are experiencing due to changes in dominant paradigms in the current period and to processes such as globalisation and flexibilisation. After analysing Eurostatʼs labour market and social security indicators, we could confirm that there are different flexibilisation 'models' in the EU since EU countries are using different forms of flexible employment as the primary source of flexibilisation. We also found that the 'selection' of a particular form of flexible employment is strongly correlated, among other factors, with the level of wealth accumulated in a particular society and that the different forms of flexible employment produce different levels of risk of poverty.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Evropska unija, Fleksibilnost, Flexibility, Labor market, Poverty, Revščina, Social security, Socialna varnost, Trg dela, trg delovne sile
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publisher: Fakulteta za sociologijo, politične vede in novinarstvo v Ljubljani
• Year: 2012
• Number of pages: Str. 901-921, 1039
• Numbering: Letn. 49, št. 6
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-76907
• UDC: 331.5:364.2EU
• ISSN on article: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 3633096
• Publication date in RUL: 30.12.2015

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Teorija in praksa : revija za družbena vprašanja
• Shortened title: Teor. praksa
• Publisher: Fakulteta za družbene vede
• ISSN: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 763652

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian

Abstract

Članek obravnava korenite spremembe (zmanjševanje različnih oblik varnosti), ki jih doživljajo moderni evropski trgi dela zaradi sprememb paradigem, ki prevladujejo v konkretnem času in procesov, kot sta globalizacija in fleksibilizacija. Z analizo kazalnikov Eurostata o trgu dela in socialni varnosti smo potrdili, da obstajajo različni 'modeli' fleksibilizacije v EU, ker države EU uporabljajo različne oblike fleksibilnega zaposlovanja, kot je primarni vir fleksibilizacije. Ugotovili smo tudi, da je 'izbira' posebne oblike fleksibilnega zaposlovanja močno povezana med drugim s stopnjo bogastva, akumuliranega v določeni družbi, in da različne oblike fleksibilnega zaposlovanja proizvajajo različne stopnje tveganja revščine.

• Keywords: trg delovne sile, Evropska unija