Has Work-sharing Worked in Finland?

Petri Böckerman () and Jaakko Kiander

No 148, Working Papers from Työn ja talouden tutkimus LABORE, Labour Institute for Economic Research LABORE

Abstract: The paper investigates the employment effects of working time reductions in Finland by dividing the economy into six main sectors from 1960 to 1996. Work-sharing works if there exists a tradeoff between the average working time and employment. This means that a reduction in average working hours delivers an increase in employment. The main result is that a reduction in actual average hours seems to deliver an increase in employment in the short run on condition that output does not deteriorate as a result of shorter average working time.

Keywords: employment; working hours; work-sharing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 1998-01-01
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