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

Messenger, Jon C.; Ghosheh, Naj

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“…Overall, the Dutch Deeltijd-WW was considered to be a carefully planned arrangement with balanced eligibility criteria for employers and employees, some flexibility in the volume of hours and workers in its use and an income supplement for participating workers (Messenger and Ghosheh, 2013).…”

Section: The Dutch Stw Programmementioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is estimated that STW reduced unemployment by 0.1–0.2 percentage points, saving a little more than 5000 jobs during the crisis. However, some studies challenge these meagre findings and present a more positive image of STW suggesting that 27,000 to 28,000 jobs were saved in 2009 (Messenger and Ghosheh, 2013). Flecker and Schönauer (2013) report that 4 out of 10 jobs in danger were saved by STW.…”

Section: The Dutch Stw Programmementioning

confidence: 99%

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Short-time work: A bridge to employment security or a springboard to unemployment?

Pavlopoulos

Chkalova

2019

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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This paper investigates the employment effect of short-time work in the Netherlands during the Great Recession (2009)(2010)(2011)). Short-time work was introduced during the recession under a special arrangement with the aim of reducing unemployment hikes by offering firms the possibility of adjusting the working time of specialised workers rather than adjust the size of their workforce. In this paper, we focus on the effect of short-time work at the individual level of the worker and study whether short-time programme participants in surviving firms had a lower job turnover rate and transition rate to unemployment compared to workers who did not participate in the programme. Furthermore, we study whether flexibility policies of the substantial influence the effectiveness of short-time work in that it protects workers from unemployment. Specifically, we investigate whether the effect of short-time work is related to the intensiveness of its use by the firm and the extensiveness of the use of external flexibility arrangements-i.e., temporary contracts and temporary agency workersby the firm. For this purpose, we apply a discrete-time survival model using a unique dataset with monthly register data from Statistics Netherlands. Participants in the short-time work programme are compared with non-participant workers from firms that used short-time work and workers from firms that did not make use of the programme. Our findings indicate that, in surviving firms, short-time work had a positive effect: the risk of unemployment and job separation is, in most cases, lower for short-time work participants than non-participants. Short-time work is most effective in protecting workers from unemployment in firms that extended the use of the programme to many workers and for a relatively small number of hours, and that make either moderate use of temporary agency workers or extensive use of fixed-term contracts.

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Section: The Dutch Stw Programmementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Dutch Stw Programmementioning

confidence: 99%

Short-time work: A bridge to employment security or a springboard to unemployment?

Pavlopoulos

Chkalova

2019

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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“…For recent "work sharing" or "short-time working" initiatives and the respective regulatory frameworks in selected European countries see Glassner and Galgóczi (2009), Bosch (2009) and Eurofound (2009). For a general overview see Messenger (2009). This chapter examines one dimension of innovation in collective bargaining, in the area of working time, and refl ects on its potential for developing countries.…”

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“…The policy of working-time reductions aimed at fostering or stabilizing employment is arguably amongst the most traditional approaches to collective bargaining on employment security. The underlying idea of "work sharing" may be summarized as "a reduction of working time intended to spread a reduced volume of work over the same (or a similar) number of workers in order to avoid layoff s or, alternatively, as a measure intended to create new employment" (Messenger 2009). Other than agreements on implicit wage cuts via working-time extension, agreements on work sharing are most commonly linked to a review of established working-time patterns and working practices, geared to enhance the efficiency and fl exibility of the work process.…”

Section: Work Sharingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of collective bargaining in the global economy: negotiating for social justice

2012

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“…The strong drop in output in 2008 -that marked the beginning of the Great Recession -led to a re-emergence of work-sharing as a labor market policy tool in many European countries (Messenger et al 2013). While in some countries existing short-time work arrangements were reformed by extending coverage, duration, and compensation, other countries introduced new programs in the recession (for an overview of the programs in the EU see Arpaia et al 2010, as well as Boeri and Bruecker 2011).…”

Section: Work-sharing In the Great Recessionmentioning

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Work-sharing for a sustainable economy

Zwickl

Disslbacher

Stagl

2016

Ecological Economics

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Achieving low unemployment in an environment of weak growth is a major policy challenge; a more egalitarian distribution of hours worked could be the key to solving it. Whether worksharing actually increases employment, however, has been debated controversially. In this article we present stylized facts on the distribution of hours worked and discuss the role of work-sharing for a sustainable economy. Building on recent developments in labor market theory we review the determinants of working long hours and its effect on well-being. Finally, we survey work-sharing reforms in the past. While there seems to be a consensus that worksharing in the Great Depression in the U.S. and in the Great Recession in Europe was successful in reducing employment losses, perceptions of the work-sharing reforms implemented between the 1980s and early 2000s are more ambivalent. However, even the most critical evaluations of these reforms provide no credible evidence of negative employment effects; instead, the overall success of the policy seems to depend on the economic and institutional setting, as well as the specific details of its implementation.

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

Cited by 3 publications

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Short-time work: A bridge to employment security or a springboard to unemployment?

Short-time work: A bridge to employment security or a springboard to unemployment?

The Role of collective bargaining in the global economy: negotiating for social justice

Work-sharing for a sustainable economy

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