Flexibility and security: an asymmetrical relationship?
for 1% of unemployed, expenditure on social protection, and collective bargaining coverage (Auer,
2008).
Diagram 8
Source: Auer, “The politics in the political economy of fl exicurity”, 2008
The flexicurity policy agenda is put into question by a number of critics that include trade unions,
political parties, segments of the workforce, business sectors and individual scholars who —for dif-
ferent reasons- do not share the enthusiasm of the flexicurity supporters, or who even dismiss the
flexicurity agenda altogether.
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