Flexicurity: a deliberate ambiguity

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Uslu, Hasan Faruk

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The aim of this thesis is to focus on the concept of flexicurity, accepted as the new labour market model balancing the needs of employers for greater flexibility in order to adapt to market forces, and the need of employees for security, which has recently been one of the most popular concepts of the debate on labour market reforms in the European Union. While doing so, this thesis discusses the position of key European institutions, especially of the Commission of the European Communities. The main argument is that the concept is still very open to alternative interpretations at the European Union level. Related to this openness is the fact that the Commission has deliberately instrumentalized the concept’s ambiguity in order to absorb all the main actors into the debate in line with its own policy preferences.

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General Social Sciences., Labor market.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12609753/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/17733

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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H. F. Uslu, “Flexicurity: a deliberate ambiguity,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2008.