The Effectiveness of Anti-Crisis Labor Market Measures in the European Union

Abstract

With the purpose of minimizing the consequences of the economic recession on the labor market, and particularly on workers, EU member states adopted specific anti-crisis labor market measures or adjusted the existing policies. In this respect, this paper aims at analyzing the relation between different labor market policy combinations issued by member states and their social model and employment protection legislation, also considered as a combination of flexibility and security tools, and tries to identify which system and policies seem to provide a higher level of effectiveness in tackling the crisis.