Flexicurity (a portmanteau of flexibility and security) is a welfare state model with a pro-active labour market policy. The model is a combination of easy hiring and firing (flexibility for employers) and high benefits for the unemployed (security for the employees). It was first implemented in Denmark by the social democratic Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen in the 1990s.
The EU has investigated flexicurity as a possible future European model, mainly because the model has contributed to near-full employment in Denmark […]

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