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Flexible Forms of Employment Integration. Assessing the Implementation of Pilot Projects Promoting Flexible Arrangements: The Case of Cyprus

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  • Miltiadis Staboulis

    (University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece)

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The present paper examines the dynamic relation between flexible work arrange-ments and effective employment policies. Regulations that form the integration framework of flexible forms of employment are analyzed thoroughly, based on the country's social model and labor legislation. Active employment policies are studied as a tool of increasing flexibility in labor markets especially during the recent times of global recession. The research part of the paper investigates two certain experimental projects that involve flexible work arrangements in Cyprus. Both projects implement certain employment policies that promote local flexible employment. Through applying ex-post evaluation methodologies, a detailed set of qualitative and quantitative data is thoroughly elaborated, resulting in a vast number of innovative parameters that could be used in promoting flexible, decent, healthy and productive work, in order to achieve an inclusive sustainable economic growth, according to International Labor Organization's (ILO) engagement.

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  • Miltiadis Staboulis, 2019. "Flexible Forms of Employment Integration. Assessing the Implementation of Pilot Projects Promoting Flexible Arrangements: The Case of Cyprus," South-Eastern Europe Journal of Economics, Association of Economic Universities of South and Eastern Europe and the Black Sea Region, vol. 17(2), pages 221-238.
    • Handle: RePEc:seb:journl:v:17:y:2019:i:2:p:221-238
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    Keywords

    Employment policies; Flexibility in labor market; Flexible; Decent; Productive work; Sustainable economic growth;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • J08 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics Policies
    • J78 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Public Policy (including comparable worth)
    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • J28 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Safety; Job Satisfaction; Related Public Policy
    • J41 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Labor Contracts

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