Work sharing during the Great Recession : new developments and beyond /
Work sharing' is a labour market instrument devised in order 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 shar...
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Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Geneva, Switzerland :
Edward Elgar Publishing Limited ; International Labour Office,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- An introduction to work sharing : a strategy for preserving jobs, creating new employment and improving individual well-being / Jon C. Messenger, Naj Ghosheh
- Work sharing as an alternative to layoffs : lessons from the German experience during the crisis / Lutz Bellmann [and three others]
- European diversity of work sharing as a crisis measure : the experiences of Austria, Belgium, France and the Netherlands / Jörg Flecker, Annika Schönauer
- Work sharing in Japan / Kazuya Ogura
- The Turkish experience with work-sharing policy during the global economic crisis, 2008-2010 / Erinç Yeldan
- Results of the implementation of the suspension and partial unemployment insurance programmes in Uruguay, 2009-2010 / Maria José González Fernández
- Work sharing as a potential policy tool for creating more and better employment : a review of the evidence / Lonnie Golden, Stuart Glosser
- Conclusion: Lessons learned from the Great Recession and implications for policy / Jon C. Messenger, Naj Ghosheh.