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Plenary Lecture

Do Flexicurity Policies Work for All?

Professor Daniela Zirra
Department of Research
Economic Research Centre
Romanian-American University, Bucharest
Romania
E-mail: daniela.zirra@gmail.com

Abstract: The current context of global economy evolution is that many of the strategies and economic policies designed before 2008 may be difficult to be implemented today. We refer here especially to the social-economic area and, more specifically, to the documents that are covering the labour market and work force employment. If the first part of the new millennium the decision makers concerns were focused on labour market flexibility in order to increase economic efficiency and corporate profitability, in the second part of 2010 it has been called into question the issue of increasing job security. The accentuation of economic globalization and the expansion of this process on the labour resources, by liberalization of labour movements worldwide, in greater or less extent in different regions of the world, did nothing than complicating the problems even more. Therefore, can we speak about a conflict between flexibility and security in the nowadays labour market? We do have to choose between these two? Can they work together harmoniously? Can we talk about flexicurity in a strongly perturbed economy? Are flexicurity policies equally effective for the developed and the developing countries? Here are some of the questions that we will try to answer in this paper.

Brief Biography of the Speaker:Daniela Zirra is professor in Romanian-American University, Bucharest. She did her undergraduate work in 1996, and received the master degree in Human Resources Management in 1997, at The Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies. Also, she received her Ph.D. in Economics in 2005 from Romanian Academy, National Institute of Economic Research Bucharest. Her area of expertise is microeconomics, macroeconomics, investments efficiency and project management. She authored or co-authored over 30 scientific books or manuals and more than 60 papers published in reviewed journals or presented at international conferences (World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society WSEAS; DAAAM International, Vienna, Austria; Faculty of Economics, South-West University of Neofit Rilski, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria; International Association of Academies of Sciences, Ukraine, Kiev; Yasar University, İzmir,Türkiye etc.). Until now, she was project manager or member in the project teams in 20 research projects or grants (national and international). Daniela Zirra was the Director of Economic Research Centre in Romanian-American University between July 2006 and December 2012. She also had collaborations with De Sales University, Philadelphia, starting with November 2004, until present. She was visiting professor in Tietgen Business College, Denmark in September 2010, and also in Kemi-Tornio University of Applied Sciences, Finland in September 2011.

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