@techreport{Tangian2004Liberal,
abstract = {The notion of flexicurity was introduced in the late 1990s. It promotes the idea of compensation of deregulation of labour markets (= flexibilization) by advantages in employment and
social security, in particularly for flexibly employed (other than permanent full-time, called
also atypically employed). This paper suggests an operational definition of flexicurity, taking into account different views of liberals and trade unions. The corresponding flexicurity
indices are derived from (a) data on the dynamics of employment types, (b) scores of the
strictness of employment protection legislation provided by the OECD, and (c) qualitative
juridical data on social security.
To convert the latter into numbers, eight employment types (permanent full-time, fixed-
term part-time, etc.) in 16 European countries are ranked with respect to their eligibility to
five social security benefits (unemployment insurance, public pensions, etc). To avoid known
shortages of ranking, the Method of Total Ranks is proposed. The ranks replace continuous
variables as index entries, and a dedicated model estimates the total index error which results
from such an `ordinal rounding' of the index input.
The flexicurity indices are calculated for 16 European countries for the years 1994-2003. Contrary to theoretical opinions, the current deregulation of European labour markets is not compensated by improvements in the social security. If the flexicurity advantages/disadvantages are accounted proportionally to the size of affected groups then the
factual trends are negative even from the viewpoint of liberals, to say nothing of trade
unions. The reciprocity of the advantages/disadvantages turns out to be illusory, because
gains are smaller than losses and winners are fewer than losers. Thereby the study warns
against promoting flexicurity policies with no operational control and empirical feedback.},
author = {Andranik S. Tangian},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {J65; C43; J26; J21; J83; J88; C51; 330; Flexicurity; employment security; social security; employment protection legislation; European Union; statistical indices; Arbeitsmarktflexibilisierung; Soziale Sicherung; Sozialer Indikator; Arbeitsverh\"{a}ltnis; Arbeitsrecht; Vergleich; EU-Staaten},
language = {eng},
number = {131},
title = {Liberal and trade-unionist concepts of flexicurity: Modelling in application to 16 European countries},
type = {WSI-Diskussionspapiere},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/21572},
year = {2004}
}
