Working Hours and Job Sharing in the EU and USA
Are Europeans Lazy? Or Americans Crazy?
Boeri, Tito Professor of Economics, Bocconi University, Milan
Burda, Michael Professor of Economics, Humboldt University Berlin
Kramarz, Francis Head of the Research Department at CREST-INSEE and Associate Professor at Ecole Polytechnique
Print publication date: 2008 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2008
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-923102-7
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199231027.003.0012
 

Francis Kramarz
Pierre Cahuc
Bruno Crépon
Oskar Nordstörm Skans
Thorsten Schank
Gijsbert van Lomwel
André Zylberberg
This chapter gives an overview of how work-sharing was implemented in the Netherlands. It shows that its employment effects were limited. However, work-sharing in the early 1980s was responsible for an unprecedented level of part-time employment in the Netherlands. This chapter is organized as follows. First, it discusses how work-sharing was implemented in the Netherlands. It then discusses the employment effects of work-sharing, especially regardng part-time employment. The influence of public policy and social values on labour force participation is considered.
Keywords: working hours, the Netherlands, part-time employment, public policy, social values
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199231027.003.0012
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Part I The Distribution of Total Work in the EU and USA
Part II Labor Market Effects of Work-Sharing Arrangements in Europe