IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/iab/iabkbe/200917.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Kurzarbeit: Betriebe zahlen mit - und haben was davon (Short-time work: Firms participate in the costs - and in the returns)

Author

Listed:
  • Bach, Hans-Uwe

    (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany)

  • Spitznagel, Eugen

    (IAB)

Abstract

"In the present recession, temporary short-time work is an alternative to dismissals: firms keep their staff while workers retain their jobs over the cycle. The Federal Employment Agency finances part of the employees' loss of wages during the short-time period and also pays social contributions for hours not worked. Nevertheless firms still have to pay substantial indirect labour costs. On the other hand, firms avoid the opportunity costs of dismissals, human capital leakages, and future recruitment. The remaining costs can also help to avoid substitution effects, moral hazard and structural persistence which may occur with short-time work." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Suggested Citation

  • Bach, Hans-Uwe & Spitznagel, Eugen, 2009. "Kurzarbeit: Betriebe zahlen mit - und haben was davon (Short-time work: Firms participate in the costs - and in the returns)," IAB-Kurzbericht 200917, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany].
    • Handle: RePEc:iab:iabkbe:200917
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doku.iab.de/kurzber/2009/kb1709.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:iab:iabkbe:200917. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: IAB, Geschäftsbereich Wissenschaftliche Fachinformation und Bibliothek (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/iabbbde.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.