Flexible Employment Forms as an Element of Flexicurity

Employment and Decent Work in the Era of ‘Flexicurity’

Th is paper challenges the conventional wisdom that employment growth requires denial of all forms of security for workers, contrary to orthodox theorizing that regards minimal. Orthodox theorizing, emphasizing the wage-labour nexus, regards minimal worker security as necessary for good economic performance by fi rms and national economies. A comparative analysis of OECD countries shows that th...

New forms of employment Crowd employment, Spain

Crowd employment platforms in Spain are a rather recent development. However, they have experienced remarkable growth during the economic crisis. The number of workers and clients has increased in the sectors already using crowd employment (including creative design), and the phenomenon has spread to other sectors such as housing and design, computing, book editing and translation (InfoCrowdsou...

New forms of employment

Coworking in Spain has experienced rapid growth since 2010, propelling it to third place in the Global Coworking Census 2013 which ranks countries based on the number of coworking centres (deskmag, 2014). The two regions that have experienced the highest increases are Madrid and Barcelona. The growth experienced by coworking centres in Spain has triggered the development of initiatives to promo...

The Welfare State as an Investment Strategy: Denmark’s Flexicurity Policies

Other Forms of Employment: Temporary Employment Agencies and Self-Employment

Other Forms of Employment: Temporary Employment Agencies and Self-Employment In most industrialized countries the majority of employed people are full-time employees with a non-temporary job and work at a workplace of the company in which they are employed. They are making careers at the employer they are employed by and most work-place changes are to other jobs of the same type. But it does no...