@techreport{Kapteyn2000Myth,
abstract = {Worksharing is considered by many as a promising public policy to reduce unemployment. In
this paper we present a review of the most pertinent theoretical and empirical contributions to
the literature on worksharing. In addition, we also provide new empirical evidence on this issue,
by a cross country analysis exploiting aggregate data for 13 OECD countries. The conclusions of
the literature survey are indecisive. Conclusions about the efficacy of worksharing as an
employment enhancing policy tool depend heavily on the setting in which the analysis takes
place. Our empirical analysis does not find any evidence for the proposition that worksharing
would promote employment or reduce unemployment. In an appendix we present an overview of
recent public policy experience of European Countries with respect to different forms of
worksharing. Also here the evidence is mixed.},
author = {Arie Kapteyn and Adriaan S. Kalwij and Asghar Zaidi},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {E24; J2; J3; C33; 330; Employment; hours of work; panel data; Job sharing; Arbeitszeitflexibilisierung; Arbeitslosigkeit; Besch\"{a}ftigungseffekt; Theorie; OECD-Staaten},
language = {eng},
number = {188},
title = {The Myth of Worksharing},
type = {IZA Discussion paper series},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/21031},
year = {2000}
}
