Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21031 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 188
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
Employment
hours of work
panel data
JEL: 
E24
J2
J3
C33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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