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Considerable international attention has been directed at the so-called Danish flexicurity model for the labor market. The flexicurity model is characterized by a particular labor market situation in which high levels of flexibility are combined with high levels of social security. The words “flexibility” and “security” have been combined to form the “flexicurity” concept (Burroni and Keune, 2011).
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Jensen, C.S. (2015). Employment Relations, Flexicurity, and Risk: Explaining the Risk Profile of the Danish Flexicurity Model. In: Bengtsson, T.T., Frederiksen, M., Larsen, J.E. (eds) The Danish Welfare State. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137527318_4
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