@techreport{Tangian2004Defining,
abstract = {The notion of flexicurity was introduced in the 1990s to promote a better job security and
social security of atypically employed (other than permanent full-time). The given paper
suggests an operational definition of flexicurity which implies the corresponding flexicurity index. For analytical purposes two other indices, the Norm-security of `normally',
i.e. permanent full-time, employed and the All-security of all, i.e. both `normally' and
atypically employed, are defined.
The indices are derived from qualitative juridical data. For this purpose, employment
groups in different countries are ranked with respect to five partial criteria: the eligibility
to public pensions, to unemployment insurance, etc. Due to the specificity of criteria, the
ranking is generally possible and is not that confusing as the task of numerical evaluation.
A dedicated mathematical proposition estimates the error in the index which results
from `ordinal rounding' of the input variables comparing to using the `exact' variable
values. Thus even if the `exact' (latent) variables are not known then the rank-scaled
input is sufficient to approximate the index which otherwise could not be obtained at all.
The index is calculated for 16 European countries for the years 1990-2003.},
author = {Andranik S. Tangian},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {J65; J21; J88; J83; C51; J26; C43; 330; Flexicurity; employment security; social security; employment protection legislation; fringe benefits; European Union; statistical indices; Arbeitsverh\"{a}ltnis; Ungesch\"{u}tzte Besch\"{a}ftigung; Arbeitsmarktflexibilisierung; Soziale Sicherung; Sozialer Indikator; EU-Staaten},
language = {eng},
number = {122},
title = {Defining the flexicurity index in application to European countries},
type = {WSI-Diskussionspapiere},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/21564},
year = {2004}
}
