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Flexibility and security: an asymmetrical relationship?

Diagram 5: Key components of the EU flexicurity strategy

Policy components	Aims	Policy tools
flexible and reliable contractual arrangements (from the perspective of both employers and employees, “insiders” and “outsiders”)_____________________	• to fight against labour market segmentation	• modernization of labour law, relaxation of EPL • collective agreements • modernize work _____organization________________
comprehensive and responsive lifelong learning strategies	• to keep the skills of workers (especially the more vulnerable ones) up _____to date_____________________	• high quality initial education, broad key competences • continuous training_________
effective active labour market policies	• help reintegrate people into employment • help people cope with rapid change • support safe transitions	• job placement services • training programs • job creation schemes • work incentives
modern social security systems	• provide people with income security and support (disability, long- term care) • facilitate transitions to new jobs, through efficient job search assistance and finan-cial incentives (balan- ce between rights and obligations) • enhance work / life _____balance___________________	• adequate unemployment benefits • healthcare benefits • pensions • childcare

Source: Adapted by author from Eurofound, 2008, “Employment security and employability: a contribution to the flexicurity
debate” and European Commission, 2007b, “Towards Common Principles of Flexicurity”

The specific combinations and sequences of policies will of course depend on the particular
socio-economic and cultural circumstances prevailing in each country. The degree, to which the
outcome of these policy configurations could be identified as a flexicurity policy needs, however, to
be put into question. Moreover, although the key policy components of the EU flexicurity strategy
and its stated aims are hardly contested by anyone, it is the specific content and mix of the policy
measures that arouse the most controversy.

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