Work sharing during the Great Recession : new developments and beyond /
Title By: Messenger, Jon C [Editor.] | Ghosheh, Naj [Editor.]
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331.256 PE FA Fake work : | 331.2572 GL OB Global trends in flexible labour / | 331.2572 GL OB Global trends in flexible labour / | 331.2572090511 WO RK Work sharing during the Great Recession : | 331.25727 AB EO Abe Osherof : one foot in the grave, the other still dancing | 331.25727 ST PR A precariat charter : | 331.25729 TE MP Temporary agency work and globalisation : |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'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.