Überblick
Danish flexicurity has become a political celebrity in Europe. The Danish case of flexicurity is often described as a certain state of affairs or a labour market model for the regular workforce. So far the relationship between "atypical employment? and Danish flexicurity has not been well researched. In this article, we take the effort to investigate the relationship in some detail. We describe the incidence, development and regulation of part-time employment, fixed-term contracts, temp agency work, self-employed and - as a special Danish ingredient - the so-called flex-jobs. We do not find much empirical support to the assumption that atypical employment is becoming more typical or that atypical employment is unregulated and poorly protected. In contrast, it seems that Danish flexicurity has been extended to include "atypical? workers. This strategy of "normalising atypical work? rather than easing dismissal protection for regular workers may serve as a policy lesson in other European countries.