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- noun A
welfare state model with aproactive labour marketpolicy , combining easy hiring and firing (flexibility for employers) and highbenefits for theunemployed (security for the employees).
Etymologies
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Examples
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He recommended "flexicurity" -- which mixes lifelong learning and job training, flexible labour market policies and high levels of social protection -- as the way to modernise Europe's labour policies.
EU News 2010
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That's largely because of a system called flexicurity that gives employers the freedom to hire and fire, while the state supports laid-off workers with generous benefits and training.
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Restructured to compete globally, it enacted "flexicurity"-an important pre-text in setting the stage for Denmark's brain-powered environment.
Forbes.com: News Christopher P. Skroupa 2011
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Restructured to compete globally, it enacted "flexicurity"-an important pre-text in setting the stage for Denmark's brain-powered environment.
Forbes.com: News Christopher P. Skroupa 2011
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Restructured to compete globally, it enacted "flexicurity"-an important pre-text in setting the stage for Denmark's brain-powered environment.
Forbes.com: News Christopher P. Skroupa 2011
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With these revenues, the state spends roughly 5 percent of its GDP on the unemployed and as much as 2 percent alone on "flexicurity" labor market programs to help retrain displaced workers.
Eric Alterman: Think Again: The Economist's "Happy" Ignorance Eric Alterman 2011
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With these revenues, the state spends roughly 5 percent of its GDP on the unemployed and as much as 2 percent alone on "flexicurity" labor market programs to help retrain displaced workers.
Eric Alterman: Think Again: The Economist's "Happy" Ignorance Eric Alterman 2011
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With these revenues, the state spends roughly 5 percent of its GDP on the unemployed and as much as 2 percent alone on "flexicurity" labor market programs to help retrain displaced workers.
Eric Alterman: Think Again: The Economist's "Happy" Ignorance Eric Alterman 2011
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With these revenues, the state spends roughly 5 percent of its GDP on the unemployed and as much as 2 percent alone on "flexicurity" labor market programs to help retrain displaced workers.
Eric Alterman: Think Again: The Economist's "Happy" Ignorance Eric Alterman 2011
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Denmark, once hailed for its "flexicurity" system (state-subsidized programs offering temporary work to prevent layoffs, job training and up to four years of assistance for those without work), is lopping the program in half.
How to Create Jobs 2010
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