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245 10 a| Work Sharing During the Great Recessionh| [electronic resource]:b| New Developments and Beyond;

260 a| Northampton : b| Edward Elgar Publishing, Incorporated;

300 a| 320 p.;

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520 8 a| Annotationb| ÔWork sharingÕ 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 20082009. 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.;

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Work Sharing During the Great Recession New Developments and Beyond

Author/creator	Messenger, Jon C. Author
Other author	Ghosheh, Naj Author
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, Incorporated
Description	320 p.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subjects	Financial Crises Job Sharing

Summary	Annotation ÔWork sharingÕ 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 20082009. 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.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2012952237
ISBN	9781782540878
ISBN	1782540873 (Trade Cloth) Active Record
Stock number	00123902

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