NEW TRENDS AND NEW PERSPECTIVES IN EUROPEAN UNION LABOUR MARKET POLICIES: PRE-EES AND EES ERAS

Year 2005, Issue: 50, 397 - 433, 13.10.2010

Taner Akan

Abstract

Küreselleşme ile birlikte ortaya çıkan yeni trendler başta AB ülkeleri olmak üzere birçok ülkenin endüstri ilişkileri ve işgücü piyasalarının yapısal özelliklerini etkilemiştir. AB ülkelerinin klasik sosyal piyasa ekonomisi anlayışının bu yeni trendleri karşılamadaki yetersizliği nedeniyle, AB ülkeleri "Avrupa İstihdam Stratejisi" (AİS) adıyla yeni bir stratejik açılım geliştirmişlerdir. Bu parametreler ışığında, bu makalenin amacı AB ülkelerinin işgücü piyasası stratejilerini AİS öncesi ve AİS dönemi olarak analiz ederek AB işgücü piyasalarında yaşanan dönüşümü ortaya koymaktır. AİS öncesi, AB ülkelerindeki geleneksel işgücü piyasası anlayışını yansıtan bir süreç olarak ele alınmakta, AİS dönemi ise bir reform süreci olarak değerlendirilmektedir. Çalışma kapsamında AB ülkelerinin sosyal piyasa ekonomisi anlayışlarını sözkonusu yeni trendlerin ortaya çıkardığı konjonktürün gereklerine göre yapılandırma çabası içine girdiği sonucuna varılmaktadır.

Keywords

NEW, TRENDS, PERSPECTIVES

NEW TRENDS AND NEW PERSPECTIVES IN EUROPEAN UNION LABOUR MARKET POLICIES: PRE-EES AND EES ERAS

Abstract

Recent developments in industrial relations and labor markets
across the globe have transformed structural characteristics of all of the countries, especially of EU countries. As a response to the fact that
classical social market economy mentality in EU is unable to counteract
these transformative developments, EU has tried to revolutionize a new
policy called “European Employment Strategy”. Given these
parameters, the aim of this paper is to analyze the EU countries’ labor
market strategies within Pre-EES and EES eras. While doing this, PreEES era is taken as an era which reflects the traditional structures in EU
and EES as a reform endeavour. It’s concluded that the recent trends
with the advent of globalization have overwhelmed the social market
economy of EU countries and compelled them to internalize the
requirements of them by means of EES.

Keywords

NEW, TRENDS, PERSPECTIVES

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