Job losses and recourse to short-time work vary across sectors

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Time Work ◽  
Short Time

scholarly journals Autonomes Fahren statt Stop and Go: Vorschläge zur effektiven Gestaltung der deutschen Kurzarbeit

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 252-260
Author(s):  
Almut Balleer ◽  
Britta Gehrke ◽  
Brigitte Hochmuth ◽  
Christian Merkl
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Business Cycle ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Timely Manner ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Stop And Go ◽  
Time Work ◽  
The Business Cycle ◽  
Short Time

Abstract This article argues that short-time work stabilized employment in Germany substantially during the Great Recession in 2008/09. The labor market instrument acted in timely manner, as it was used in a rule-based fashion. In addition, discretionary extensions were effective due to their interaction with the business cycle. To ensure that short-time work will be effective in the future, this article proposes an automatic facilitation of the access to short-time work in severe recessions. This reduces the likelihood of a too extensive use at the wrong point in time as well as structural instead of cyclical interventions.

scholarly journals Temping fates in Spain: hours and employment in a dual labor market during the Great Recession and COVID-19

SERIEs ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Lafuente ◽  
Raül Santaeulàlia-Llopis ◽  
Ludo Visschers
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Dual Labor Market ◽  
Total Employment ◽  
Temporary Contracts ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Permanent Workers ◽  
The Impact

AbstractWe investigate the behavior of aggregate hours supplied by workers in permanent (open-ended) contracts and temporary contracts, distinguishing changes in employment (extensive margin) and hours per worker (intensive margin). We focus on the differences between the Great Recession and the start of the COVID-19 Recession. In the Great Recession, the loss in aggregate hours is largely accounted for by employment losses (hours per worker did not adjust) and initially mainly by workers in temporary contracts. In contrast, in the early stages of the COVID-19 Recession, approximately sixty percent of the drop in aggregate hours is accounted for by permanent workers that do not only adjust hours per worker (beyond average) but also face employment losses—accounting for one-third of the total employment losses in the economy. We argue that our comparison across recessions allows for a more general discussion on the impact of adjustment frictions in the dual labor market and the effects policy, in particular the short-time work policy (ERTE) in Spain.

scholarly journals Germany’s Labour Market Policies

2019 ◽  
pp. 283-303
Author(s):  
Florian Spohr
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Economic Resilience ◽  
Labour Market Policies ◽  
Employment Agency ◽  
Time Work ◽  
The Government ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Deep Recession

Germany has become one of the most competitive economies in the world. Only a decade and a half ago it was widely derided as stagnant, and ridden by political paralysis in reforming its labour market policies. However, in 2002, the discovery of manipulated statistics in the German Employment Agency opened a window of opportunity to break the stalemate in corporatist policymaking. In response, the government convened a commission to design labour market policy reforms: the Hartz Committee, named for its chair, Peter Hartz. Including experts, politicians, and members from interest groups in the commission enabled the government to promote the ‘Hartz Reforms’ on the basis of expertise and compromise. Their focus was on creating incentives for seeking employment. Job search assistance and monitoring gained importance, whereas ineffective job creation and early retirement schemes were abolished or reduced. These activating reforms successfully tackled structural unemployment and increased the overall employment rate. Their success in strengthening economic resilience was demonstrated during the 2008 economic crisis, when in combination with other measures such as the extension of short-time work, and controlled unit labour costs, they led Germany’s labour market through the deep recession.

The changing use of short-time work schemes: Evidence from two recessions

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
José M Arranz ◽  
Carlos García-Serrano ◽  
Virginia Hernanz
Keyword(s):  
Labour Force ◽  
Individual Data ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Short Time

We explore differences in resort to short-time work schemes between the recessions in the early 1990s and the late 2000s in Spain and Italy and explore how far these are associated with differences in employees’ personal and job-related characteristics. We use individual data from national Labour Force Surveys and perform a multivariate detailed decomposition. We find that participation in these schemes in the second recession would have been even greater without the changes in skills and production structures in both countries.

Short-time work in Germany

Sinappsi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Toralf Pusch ◽  
Hartmut Seifert
Keyword(s):  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Considerable Degree ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Policy Experimentation ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Short Time

In the coronavirus pandemic, short-time work has been one of the key instruments for stabilising employment in Germany. There has also been a considerable degree of policy experimentation, making the use of short-time work much more attractive. Changes include extension of the payment period, top-ups of the allowance after certain durations, easier access to the scheme and financial incentives for employers. The aim of our contribution is to give an overview of how short-time work in Germany has shaped the degree of furlough and has helped to preserve employment during the current crisis. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nella pandemia da coronavirus, il lavoro ridotto è stato uno degli strumenti chiave per stabilizzare l'occupazione in Germania. Il notevole grado di sperimentazione politica ha reso l'implementazione del lavoro ridotto molto più interessante. Le caratteristiche includono una proroga del periodo di pagamento, aumenti dell'indennità dopo determinati periodi di tempo, un accesso facilitato a tale strumento e incentivi finanziari per i datori di lavoro. Lo scopo del nostro contributo è fornire una panoramica di come il lavoro ridotto in Germania abbia influito sull'utilizzo della cassa integrazione e abbia contribuito a preservare l'occupazione durante l'attuale crisi.

scholarly journals Short-time work in Luxembourg: evidence from a firm survey

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Efstathiou ◽  
Thomas Y. Mathä ◽  
Cindy Veiga ◽  
Ladislav Wintr
Keyword(s):  
Time Work ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Firm Survey
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