Clasen, Jochen, Clegg, Daniel, Kvist Jon, (2012), ‘European labour market policies in (the) crisis’, The European Trade Union Institute Working Paper, 2012/12.
Before the onset of the global economic crisis in 2008, the new millennium had been characterised by the gradual emergence of a new consensus around labour market policy reform in Europe. While in earlier decades labour market policy debates often opposed supporters and opponents of all forms of public intervention in labour markets, by the 2000s there was increasingly widespread coalescence around a more nuanced ‘recalibration’ agenda, in which the central aim was reworking the precise mix of labour market policies and institutions to best reconcile economic competitiveness and social solidarity and to share the risks and opportunities of modern labour markets