ISBN:
9781782540885
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 312 pages)
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diagrams
Series Statement:
Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Work sharing during the Great Recession
DDC:
331.2572090511
Keywords:
Finanzkrise
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Beschäftigungssicherung
;
Teilzeitarbeit
;
Unterbeschäftigung
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Arbeitsmarktpolitik
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EU-Staaten
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Welt
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Work sharing History 21st century
;
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 Social aspects
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Electronic books
;
Work sharing
;
History
;
21st century
;
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
;
Social aspects
Abstract:
1. An introduction to work sharing : a strategy for preserving jobs, creating new employment and improving individual well-being / Jon C. Messenger and Naj Ghosheh -- 2. Work sharing as an alternative to layoffs : lessons from the German experience during the crisis / Lutz Bellmann ... [et al.] -- 3. European diversity of work sharing as a crisis measure : the experiences of Austria, Belgium, France and the Netherlands / Jörg Flecker and Annika Schönauer -- 4. Work sharing in Japan / Kazuya Ogura -- 5. The Turkish experience with work-sharing policy during the global economic crisis, 2008-2010 / Erinç Yeldan -- 6. Results of the implementation of the suspension and partial unemployment insurance programmes in Uruguay, 2009-2010 / María José González Fernández -- 7. Work sharing as a potential policy tool for creating more and better employment : a review of the evidence / Lonnie Golden and Stuart Glosser -- 8. Conclusion : lessons learned from the Great Recession and implications for policy / Jon C. Messenger and Naj Ghosheh.
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. The expert contributors examine the resurgence in the use of work sharing as a job preservation strategy via country case studies of work-sharing programmes implemented across the globe during the Great Recession of 2008-2009. These studies clearly illustrate that work sharing has been successful as a crisis-response measure in a number of countries. Lessons learned and their implications are presented alongside prescriptions on how to design permanent work-sharing policies that would provide appropriate incentives to generate positive effects for employment and promote a sustainable and job-rich economic recovery. This enlightening book will prove invaluable to academics, researchers, students and policymakers in the fields of labour economics, public sector economics and social policy
DOI:
10.4337/9781782540885
URL:
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