The WP2 will be focused on the various initiatives that aim at reconciling flexibility and security needs at the organizational level, with a special attention to the managerial devices supposed to help and support job transitions, most often from one organization to another: job pool, business incubator, wage portage, etc.
We
want to explore the main differences between them in terms of actors involved,
guarantees offered, coverage, control, etc.
A PhD project will be launched in order to examine various attempts to reconcile flexibility and security in job transitions via in-depth and longitudinal case studies of interorganizational flexicurity devices. A post-doctoral fellow will support the PhD project and take in charge the exploration of the role of third-party actors (WA 2.4).
The table below provides an overview of the different research activities of WP2 as well as their planning for 5 years.
|
WA |
Methodological steps |
Outputs |
Timing (in months) |
|
2.1 |
Document analysis + research stays in several European countries |
Sample of relevant flexicurity initiatives |
T1-T15 |
|
2.2 |
12 in-depth case studies including interviews with the various stakeholders concerned by each initiative, observation and document analysis
|
12 monographs of flexicurity initiatives
Modelling the relationships between the flexicurity arrangements modalities and the diverse components of flexibility and security needs |
T16-T39 |
|
2.3 |
Interviews of key experts |
Analysis of the quality of job transitions and the potential contribution of third-party actors |
T40-T45 |
|
2.4 |
12+10 case studies in which the third-party function is carried out by various actors |
Modelling the nature and modalities of the third-party function |
T46-T54 |