FLEXICURITY AND LABOUR MARKET IN KOSOVO

Recently, Flexicurity, as a new model of the labour market has raised a great interest among scientists, professionals, workers and employers and many others. Flexicurity, a new term that consists of two words: flexibility and security, has gained a significant importance in the labour market reforms. Flexicurity is incorporated in many labour market strategies such as the European Union’s Lisbon Agenda and different national strategies. The first part of the paper presents the concept, importance, origins and elements of flexicurity, while the second part introduces some indicators and characteristics of the labour market in Kosovo as well as the level of application of flexicurity model in Kosovo. From the observation made, it appears that the labour market in Kosovo is quite flexible, which means that an important component of flexicurity is accomplished, while other components such as lifelong learning, social security, active labour market policy and social dialogue are very weak points of flexicurity implementation in Kosovo.