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Integrating business start-up indicators in the flexicurity concept to cover the alternative forms of employment

Erika SumiloAgnese VaivadeEdgars Brekis

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Knowledge managementCover (telecommunications)Economic policybusiness.industryMember statesConcept developmentStart upJoint researchmedia_common.cataloged_instanceEuropean commissionBusinessEuropean unionmedia_commonFlexicurity

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The flexicurity concept created in the Netherlands and Denmark in the early 1990s has become the main stepping-stone in improving the performance of labour markets across the European Union Member States. The European Commission has therefore taken a leading role on broader flexicurity concept development and creation of the data analysis methodology. However, the analysis proposed by the European Commission Joint Research Centre on flexicurity indicators in 2010 only partly includes business start-ups as a flexible form of employment. This research starts the discussion on whether additional indicators should be integrated in the flexicurity analysis, because of the rising need for employment security through entrepreneurial activity. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3846/bm.2016.20

https://doi.org/10.3846/bm.2016.20