Bulgarien und Rumänien zwischen Flexibilität und sozialer Sicherheit
Implementing the Concept of Flexicurity: New Challenges for Labour Market Policies in Bulgaria and Romania

Summary/Abstract: Abstract: Transformation and EU integration produced remarkable changes in the pattern of sectoral and regional production and employment structure of the new EU member states. Adjustment to structural changes requires, among other things, a more flexible labour market combined with satisfactory levels of social security. The concept of flexicurity with its main components unemployment benefits, active labour market policy, and employment protection legislation stands for the European social model. In the framework of the European Employment Strategy it is considered to be the an-swer to the challenges of globalization. Following a brief review of labour market de-velopment in Bulgaria and Romania flexicurity is used as yardstick to characterize Bul-garian and Romanian labour market systems, according to the chosen trade-offs be-tween flexibility and security. We conclude with some remarks on the problems of implementation of flexicurity in both countries.

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