When flexicurity drops the ball: assessing the role of the European welfare states in mitigating the income effects of volatile employment. University of Antwerp
Since the 2000s, flexicurity has found traction as a policy strategy thanks to its win-win promise of meeting both companies' demand for flexibility, and workers' demand for security, through a combination of flexible labour markets and generous unemployment benefits. Recently, its basic tenets were recuperated in the European Pillar of Social Rights. Research has so far not succeeded in demonstrating the validity of flexicurity's win-win ...