Work Sharing during the Great Recession

Edited by Jon C. Messenger and Naj Ghosheh

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Abstract: ‘Work sharing’ is a labour market instrument devised to distribute a reduced volume of work to the same (or similar) number of workers over a diminished period of working time in order to avoid redundancies. This fascinating and timely study presents the concept and history of work sharing and explores the complexities and trade-offs involved in its use as both a strategy for preserving jobs and a policy for increasing employment.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Social Policy and Sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
ISBN: 9781782540878
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 An introduction to work sharing: A strategy for preserving jobs, creating new employment and improving individual well-being , pp 1-23

Jon C. Messenger and Naj Ghosheh

Ch 2 Work sharing as an alternative to layoffs: Lessons from the German experience during the crisis , pp 24-71

Lutz Bellmann, Andreas Crimmann, Hans-Dieter Gerner and Frank Wießner

Ch 3 European diversity of work sharing as a crisis measure: The experiences of Austria, Belgium, France and the Netherlands , pp 72-98

Jörg Flecker and Annika Schönauer

Ch 4 Work sharing in Japan , pp 99-118

Kazuya Ogura

Ch 5 The Turkish experience with work-sharing policy during the global economic crisis, 2008–2010 , pp 119-150

Erinc Yeldan

Ch 6 Results of the implementation of the suspension and partial unemployment insurance programmes in Uruguay, 2009–2010 , pp 151-202

María José González Fernández

Ch 7 Work sharing as a potential policy tool for creating more and better employment: A review of the evidence , pp 203-258

Lonnie Golden and Stuart Glosser

Ch 8 Conclusion: Lessons learned from the Great Recession and implications for policy , pp 259-298

Jon C. Messenger and Naj Ghosheh

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