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6.3. Labour market systems...............................................................................................................67
6.3.1. Prevailing labour market characteristics................................................................................68
6.3.2. Institutional initiatives to enhance labour market flexibility .................................................. 75
6.3.3. The Industrial Relations system ........................................................................................... 78
6.3.4. The effectiveness of labour market reforms ...........................................................................79
6.4. The influence of cultural factors in managing change and uncertainty..............................83
7. Performance of the 4 countries with regard to the main goals of flexicurity ................97
7.1. Employability ...............................................................................................................................97
7.2. Vulnerability..................................................................................................................................98
7.3. Economic efficiency....................................................................................................................99
8. Challenges ahead.....................................................................................................101
8.1. Addressing growing inequalities and labour market segmentation through
institutional and social reforms ...............................................................................................101
8.2. Social dialogue and the representativity crisis: who represents the precarious
workforce and the “outsiders”?...............................................................................................102
8.3. Economic viability of the flexicurity arrangements and distribution of costs:
who pays the bill? .....................................................................................................................103
9. Concluding remarks.................................................................................................105
9.1. Main findings of the report .....................................................................................................105
9.2. Is the flexicurity agenda still relevant in the present-day economic downturn? .............108
9.3. Pre-requisites for a successful policy agenda ........................................................................109
9.4. The fate of the flexicurity agenda in times of uncertainty .................................................111
References......................................................................................................................113
Annexes .........................................................................................................................117
AIAS Working Papers.....................................................................................................119
Information about AIAS ................................................................................................125
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