| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781782540878 (hbk.) : |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Call number |
331.2572090511 |
| TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Work sharing during the Great Recession : |
| Subtitle |
new developments and beyond / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
edited by Jon C. Messenger, Geneva |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
viii, 312 p. ; |
| Other Details |
ill., charts : |
| Size |
24 cm. |
| SUMMARY |
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| 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 policy. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Heading |
Work sharing |
| General |
History |
| Chronological |
21st century. |
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| Topical Heading |
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 |
| General |
Social aspects. |
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| Name |
Messenger, Jon C. |
| Dates |
1960- |
| Role |
Editor. |
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| Name |
Ghosheh, Naj, |
| Role |
Editor. |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://uowd.box.com/s/mluwnb5nlcctmtq98ilqje8t11ii3py9 |
| Public note |
Location Map |
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