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- Title
HAS WORK-SHARING WORKED IN GERMANY?
- Authors
HUNT, JENNIFER
- Abstract
Starting in 1985, (West) German unions began to reduce standard hours on an industry-by-industry basis, in an attempt to raise employment. Whether this ''work-sharing'' works is theoretically ambiguous. I exploit the cross-industry variation in standard hours reductions to examine their impact on actual hours worked, wages, and employment. Analysis of industry-level data suggests that ''work-sharing'' may have reduced employment in the period 1984–1994. Using individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, I substantiate the union claim of ''full wage compensation:'' the hourly wage rose enough to offset the decline in actual hours worked.
- Subjects
GERMANY; LABOR unions; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.; LABOR movement; EMPLOYMENT; ECONOMICS; PSYCHOLOGY; WORK sharing; HYPOTHESIS
- Publication
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1999, Vol 114, Issue 1, p117
- ISSN
0033-5533
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1162/003355399555963