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Book SynopsisWork sharing' is a labor 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 labor economics, public sector economics and social policy.
Contributors: L. Bellmann, A. Crimmann, J. Flecker, H.-D. Gerner, N. Ghosheh, S. Glosser, L. Golden, M.J. González Fernández, J.C. Messenger, K. Ogura, A. Schönauer, F. Wießner, E. Yeldan
Table of ContentsContents: 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, Andreas Crimmann, Hans-Dieter Gerner and Frank Wießner 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 Index
