AVRUPA B？RL？？？’NDE GüVENCEL？ ESNEKL？K BA？LAMINDA KIRILGAN KüMELERE SOSYAL YARDIM VE H？ZMETLER Social Benefits And Services For Vulnerable Groups In The European Union In The Context of Flexicurity

The Industrial Revolution, the Great Depression of 1929, the Second World War, the oil crises of the 1970s and the global financial crises of 2007-2008 have resulted in a change of economic management and economic policies. These changes undoubtedly occur due to the situation of the labor market. The vulnerable groups of the labor market have changed in each mentioned period, but the common characteristics of those in these groups have remained the same. Those in the vulnerable groups have characteristics such as low income, inadequate social protection, relative exclusion from the social and work fields, and in some cases marginalization. In this sense, vulnerable groups have a greater need for the protection of social security systems and the security mechanisms in the labor market. On the other hand, the vulnerable groups in European Union (EU) countries are women, the young, elders, the unemployed and immigrants. As a result of the social benefits and services provided to vulnerable groups by countries the reduction of the vulnerability of these groups vary according to the welfare state models of the countries and the social security system they have. New strategies have been EU labour markets in order to reconcile of flexibility and security. Along with globalization, the need for care services is increasing in the EU labour markets due to the reasons such as increasing of women’s employment participation, population aging, changes in family structure. Social benefit and care services have key importance in order to reconcile of flexibility and security in the EU labour markets. In this meaning, the study examines the compansate of benefits and care services peculiar to vulnerable groups with the effect of globalization in the EU member states.