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Work sharing during the Great Recession : new developments and beyond / edited by Jon C. Messenger (senior research officer, International Labour Office, Geneva, Switzerland), Naj Ghosheh (research officer, International Labour Office, Geneva, Switzerland)

Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Edward Elgar E-Book ArchivePublisher: Cheltenham, U.K ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar, 2013Description: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 312 pages) : diagramsISBN:
  • 9781782540885
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781782540878. | Erscheint auch als: Work sharing during the Great Recession. Druckausgabe. Cheltenham [u.a.] : Elgar [u.a.], 2013. VIII, 312 S.DDC classification:
  • 331.2572090511
LOC classification:
  • HD5110.5
DOI: DOI: 10.4337/9781782540885Online resources: Production credits:
  • ‘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.
Summary: 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.Summary: 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 policyPPN: PPN: 1657976602Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-EWE
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