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Journal Article 
FLEXIBILITY IN LABOUR MARKET RELATIONS BETWEEN EMPLOYERS' AND EMPLOYEES' 
Rasnaca, L; , 
2012 
LATVIA UNIV AGRICULTURE 
JELGAVA 
298-307 
WOS:000319823000034 
The labour market is an arena where the employee exchanges his or her labour for wages, status or any other goods achievable by work. The concept covers those institutes and practises which lead the processes of exchange and the receiving of services between employees, employers and other agents who take part in the labour market processes as representatives of employees and employers or as national or local government institutions and nongovernmental organisations (NGO). Flexibility in labour market relations may differ in different spatial regional units. The main attention is paid to the flexibility of the relations between the agents of the labour market in different rural and urban areas. The flexibility of labour market relations can be characterised with the help of different dimensions of flexibility. A consolidated flexibility index with four dimensions has been developed to assess the flexibility of the employers of different territorial units. The dimensions are: flexibility of employees' recruitment, flexibility of the attitude to employees from different social groups, flexibility of employees' attachment and flexibility of employees' evaluation. However, at least theoretically the avoidance of flexibility as an adaptation to the changes in the labour market is also possible. 
labour market; labour market agents; flexibility 
Brazma, G; 
7th Annual International Scientific Conference on New Dimensions in the Development of Society Dedicated to the 10th Anniversary of the Faculty-of-Social-Sciences 
Jelgava, LATVIA