Employment and decent work in the era of flexicurity

Robert Boyer
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Robert Boyer: PJSE - Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that the dynamism of employment is always contradictory to the enforcement of some forms of security for workers. Contemporary theorizing now recognizes the specificity of the wage-labour nexus. Consequently, minimum security is required for good economic performance by firms and national economies. A comparative analysis of OECD countries shows that the extended security promoted by welfare systems has not been detrimental to innovation, growth and job creation. Developing countries cannot immediately catch up with the emerging standards of flexicurity but the methodology of employment diagnosis might help them in designing security/flexibility configurations tailored according to their domestic economic specialization, social values and political choices.

Keywords: Workers security; labour flexibility; decent work; developing countries; labour standards; employment diagnosis; productive employment; welfare; flexicurity; Sécurité des travailleurs; flexibilité du travail; économie en développement; normes internationales de travail; diagnostic d'emploi; couverture sociale; flexicurité (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-07
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