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Innovating Labour Market Policies
Transitional Labour Markets and Flexicurity

Organized by:
OSA, the Institute for Labour Studies
The Flexicurity Research Programme

In association with:
Tilburg University, Utrecht University, Amsterdam University and the Hanzehogeschool Groningen

Sponsored by:
the Dutch ministeries for Employment and Social Affairs, Education and Science, Economic Affairs, Interiority and Kingdom Relations and Health, Welfare and Sports, as well as by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)

Amsterdam, 30 November and 1 December 2006
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences, KNAW
Het Trippenhuis, Kloveniersburgwal 29
1011 JV Amsterdam

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Background and aim of the conference

Labour market policies are key to the further preservation and development of our welfare. However it is clear that current labour market policies are not capable of dealing adequately with the challenges resulting from two major trends: the internationalization of the economy and the diversification of society. Europe is confronted with a double bind. On the one hand there is an urgent need, for the sake of competitiveness, to enhance the adaptability and flexibility of companies, business processes and institutions, while on the other hand social cohesion appears to be at risk as large groups are being socially and economically excluded.

We therefore are in need of policies that can increase participation and productivity, as well as flexibility and security. To date the strategy of transitional labour markets and the flexicurity approach seem the best candidates for innovating and reinventing labour market policies. OSA/the Institute for Labour Studies and the Flexicurity Research Programme have intensively scrutinized, both empirically and theoretically, these approaches over the past years. This conference has been organized to present the various findings and, importantly, to discuss them with academic colleagues and policy makers in the field.

Subthemes

• The legal regulation of flexicurity

• Migration in European Labour Markets

• Labour productivity and performance

• Theoretical and cross-national aspects of TLM and Flexicurity

• Working-time and the Work-life balance: A European Perspective

• School to work transition

• Life course policy and lifelong participation

• Transition Management and the company

• The Future of the European Employment Strategy

• In search for flexibility and employment security for older workers

• Flexicurity and emerging industries

• The policy agenda

Please follow the link for a complete description of all the subthemes.

Call for papers

Each session within the conference will include a paper by either an OSA or Flexicurity colleague, drawing from the transitional labour market or flexicurity research programme. Moreover, each session will include an invited paper. As three papers are usually considered a maximum for a session (also to stimulate discussion), each session provides room for another, third paper.

If you wish to propose a paper presentation, please contact the session coordinators and/or chair as soon as possible.

Proposals are expected no later than September 1st 2006.

Keynote speakers

Day 1, Thursday 30 November 2006

Mr. Frank Vandenbroucke, Vice Prime Minister of the Flemish Government, Belgium

Day 2, Friday 1 December 2006

Mr. Guenther Schmid, Director of the Labour Market and Employment Research Unit of the Social Science Center Berlin, Germany

Mr. David Marsden, Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Center for Economic Performance, United Kingdom

Contact details

Organizing Committee
Peter Ester, OSA
Ton Wilthagen, Flexicurity/OSA
Ruud Muffels, UvT/OSA
Joop Schippers, UU/OSA
Arthur van Soest, UvT/OSA
H.A.M.van.Lieshout, Flexicurity/Hanzehogeschool Groningen
Evert Verhulp, Flexicurity/UvA
Hester Houwing, Flexicurity/UvA

Conference Secretariat
E-mail: ILP Conference Secretariat
Tel: +31 (0)13 466 3029 or +31 (0)13 466 3350

Official web site

To learn further details on the conference please check the Conference's official web site.

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