Abstract

Summary Nowadays changes in the field of conditionings of European labour market policy as ageing society and crisis of welfare state, impose new objectives for the process of cohesion creation. The European Union countries, representing different labour market policy models (Scandinavian, corporate, liberal), have implemented labour market reforms allowing for effective usage of labour resources. The author in the article presents the assumptions of labour market policy models and indicates the main directions of its transformation in the current social and economic conditionings. That transformation mainly regards to concentration on active labour market policies and increasing its efficiency. The analysis was based on the example of three countries - Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom. They represent three different labour market models and are characterized by the activity in the field of carried out reforms of labour market (mainly active labour market policy). Those countries, thanks to the implemented changes, improved the employability of labour force and (in spite of the economic crisis from 2008) maintained stable situation on the labour market.

Highlights

  • Nowadays the main challenge of the European labour market policy is to assure appropriate level of labour force2, which allows maintaining stable output and demand

  • Germany and the United Kingdom, represent different labour market models but they are the countries with dissimilar social and economics conditionings, which are connected with their culture, history and respected values in the societies

  • The reforms carried out in the analysed countries indicate at seizure of the division of rules previously existing in the labour market policy in the distinguished above models and at development of common objectives for each of the welfare state systems in the current socio-economic conditionings

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Summary

Nowadays changes in the field of conditionings of European labour market policy as ageing society and crisis of welfare state, impose new objectives for the process of cohesion creation. The analysis was based on the example of three countries - Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom. They represent three different labour market models and are characterized by the activity in the field of carried out reforms of labour market (mainly active labour market policy). Those countries, thanks to the implemented changes, improved the employability of labour force and (in spite of the economic crisis from 2008) maintained stable situation on the labour market

Introduction
Models of labour market policy - previous approach
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