Short-time Work in Europe: Rescue in the Current COVID-19 Crisis?

Abstract

"More countries than ever are using short-time work as a labour market policy instrument to secure employment and limit the social costs of the current COVID-19 Crisis. Despite considerable differences in the institutional design and logic of short-time work schemes, the rapid deployment and high take-up of short-time work benefits is a high priority in all European countries. Highlighting the economic rationality of short-time work the report classifies European short-time work programmes into different clusters and describes significant changes in the programme design since March 2020. It further discusses possible effects against the background of empirical findings on short-time work from past times of Crisis." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Cite article

Konle-Seidl, R. (2020): Short-time Work in Europe: Rescue in the Current COVID-19 Crisis? (IAB-Forschungsbericht 04/2020 (en)), Nürnberg, 17 p.