"More countries than ever are using short-time work as a labour market policy instrument to secure employment and limit the social costs of the current Corona crisis. Despite considerable differences in the institutional design and logic of short-time work schemes, the rapid deployment and high take-up of short-time work benefits is a high priority in all European countries. Highlighting the economic rationality of short-time work the report classifies European short-time work programmes into different clusters. The paper describes significant changes in the programme design since March 2020 and discusses possible effects against the background of former empirical findings. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))"

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