ABSTRACT
Between 2007 and 2008, ‘flexicurity’ became the word and concept that was most widely used to propose measures able to improve the functioning of labour markets in Europe (Serrano, 2009)). This was especially the case of the European Commission, and also many governments and researchers. It was presented as a strategy designed to achieve a balance between flexibility and security. However, many authors have shown that flexicurity's main objective was to develop employability in the sense of increased adaptability to the requirements of the labour market and that, in practice, flexibility was emphasized far more than security (see also Prieto, this volume).
