Working Time Accounts and Turnover

Arbeitspapier

Working time account is an organization tool that allows firms to smooth their demand for hours employed. Descriptive literature suggests that working time accounts are likely to reduce layoffs and inhibit increases in unemployment during recessions. In a model of optimal labour demand I show that working time account does not necessarily guarantee less layoffs at the firm level. These may be reduced or increased depending on whether the firm meets economic downturn with surplus or deficit of hours and on how productive the firm is. In expected terms, however, working time account reduces net job destruction at almost any level of firm's productivity. Model predictions are consistent with dynamics of aggregate turnover in Germany during the Great Recession.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 7933

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Labor Demand ; Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
• Subject: labour demand ; working hours ; working time account ; turnover ; layoff ; Great Recession ; Germany

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Launov, Andrey
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (where): Munich
• (when): 2019

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/214935
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET