In the most recent institutional and academic literature, both work flexibility and worker security are understood as concepts with a multifaceted nature. Flexibility of a work relationship involves aspects concerning hiring and firing costs, the wage, the time schedule, the organisation of work and the place where it is carried out. In turn, the degree of security that workers enjoy depends on all those factors that affect their capability to provide themselves with a decent standard of life through participation to the labour market or by accessing public income-maintenance schemes. No...

In the most recent institutional and academic literature, both work flexibility and worker security are understood as concepts with a multifaceted nature. Flexibility of a work relationship involves aspects concerning hiring and firing costs, the wage, the time schedule, the organisation of work and the place where it is carried out. In turn, the degree of security that workers enjoy depends on all those factors that affect their capability to provide themselves with a decent standard of life through participation to the labour market or by accessing public income-maintenance schemes. No theory is able to provide indubitable insights on whether enhancing the dimensions of work flexibility affects positively or negatively the security of workers. Hence, this is basically an empirical matter.