Short-time work and employment stability: Evidence from a policy change
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Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/58928DOI: 10.1111/bjir.12250
ISSN: 1467-8543
Date
2018-03-01Affiliation
Universidad de Alcalá. Departamento de EconomíaBibliographic citation
British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2018, v. 56, n. 1, p. 189-222
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© John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
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Abstract
This paper investigates whether short-time work (STW) programmes achieve
their stated goal of being devices intended to preserve jobs and keep workers
employed in times of crisis. Our identification strategy exploits a change
in the financial incentives provided to employers and employees for the
temporary suspension of work contracts or the reduction of working time.
We use longitudinal administrative data and estimate difference-in-differences
regressions and instrumental variable bivariate probit models with endogenous
covariates, which try to take account of the potential endogeneity of participation
in STW. Our results suggest that discretionary policy changes in the incentives
of STW schemes can be effective in the short run but they lose their ability when
the decline in demand and the lack of work are more permanent.
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