Labour market information systems
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Labour market information systems
Definition
Systems, mechanisms or processes for gathering, organising and providing information about the state of the labour market and/or professions and jobs. This includes recording changes taking place within the labour market, employment, jobs and the professions.
Comment
Such systems often include databases linked to ICT systems and accessible via the internet. They are usually designed to be used by career counsellors and also by clients on a self-help basis.
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ELGPN Glossary, data base, ICT, information, labour market, system
Transition
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Transition
Definition
The process of moving from one education, employment or training situation to another. This would include a move out of the labour market, for example into unemployment or to look after children, and the move back into employment, education or training after a period of not being in work, education or training.
Comment
Many lifelong guidance activities are designed to support people making transitions of one kind or another.
See also definition of ‘School-to-work transition’.
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ELGPN Glossary, labour market, unemployment, training, education, transition
Flexicurity
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Flexicurity
Definition
An integrated strategy for enhancing, at the same time, flexibility and security in the labour market. Flexicurity attempts to reconcile employers' need for a flexible workforce with workers' need for security – confidence that they will not face long periods of unemployment.
Comment
The European Commission in its Employment in Europe 2006 report describes flexicurity as an optimal balance between labour market flexibility and security for employees against labour market risks. The Commission’s interpretation of flexicurity involves replacing the notion of job security, a principle that dominated employment relations until recently, with that of ‘protection of people’. The flexicurity model, first implemented in Denmark by the social democratic Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen in the 1990s, is a combination of easy hiring and firing (flexibility for employers) and high benefits for the unemployed (security for the employees). Perceived as a new way of viewing flexibility, flexicurity represents a means whereby employees and companies can better adapt to insecurities associated with global markets.
The EU has identified a set of common flexicurity principles and is exploring how countries can implement them through four components:
• flexible and reliable contractual arrangements;
• comprehensive lifelong learning strategies;
• effective active labour market policies;
• modern social security systems.
See Sutlana (2011) for a discussion of the implications for lifelong guidance of the concept of Flexicurity.
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European Commission: European Employment Strategy: What is flexicurity? Available from Internet: http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=102&langId=en
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ELGPN Glossary, flexibility, labour force, labour market, policy, security, social security