Counteracting unemployment in crises: non-linear effects of short-time work policy
"Short-time work is a labor market policy that subsidizes working time reductions among firms in financial difficulty to prevent layoffs. Many OECD countries have used this policy in the Great Recession. This paper shows that the effects of short-time work are strongly time dependent and non-li...
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| Institution: | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
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| author | Gehrke, Britta Hochmuth, Brigitte |
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| description | "Short-time work is a labor market policy that subsidizes working time reductions among firms in financial difficulty to prevent layoffs. Many OECD countries have used this policy in the Great Recession. This paper shows that the effects of short-time work are strongly time dependent and non-linear over the business cycle. It may save up to 0.8 jobs per short-time worker in deep economic crises. The policy becomes more efficient as the recession deepens. In expansions, the effects are smaller and may turn negative. We disentangle discretionary short-time work from automatic stabilization in German data using smooth transition VARs." |
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| geographic | Germany |
| id | 19399156124911173389_4275a31df18a40e1896ae7923e498daa |
| institution | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
| is_hierarchy_id | 19399156124911173389_4275a31df18a40e1896ae7923e498daa |
| is_hierarchy_title | Counteracting unemployment in crises: non-linear effects of short-time work policy |
| language | English |
| physical | 49 p. Digital |
| publishDate | 2018 |
| publisher | Bonn IZA |
| spellingShingle | Gehrke, Britta Hochmuth, Brigitte short time working economic recession labour market policy business cycle unemployment Counteracting unemployment in crises: non-linear effects of short-time work policy |
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| title | Counteracting unemployment in crises: non-linear effects of short-time work policy |
| topic | short time working economic recession labour market policy business cycle unemployment |
| url | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19399156124911173389-Counteracting-unemployment-in-.htm |