CAN IT BE EFFECTIVELY COUNTERACTED DISMISSALS OF EMPLOYEES DURING THE CRISIS? EUROPEAN EXPERIENCES

Abstract

In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, short-time work has once again proven to be an effective instrument to stabilise employment. 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 was a high priority in all European countries. The paper describes significant changes in the short-time work programme design since March 2020, the role played by short-time work scheme during the crisis and discusses possible effects against the background of former empirical findings.