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From "collective" to "individual" reductions in working time ?

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  • Steffen Lehndorff

    (Institut Arbeit und Technik, Gelsenkirchen)

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A survey of working time trends in the countries of the European Union over the past twenty years reveals the diminishing role of general collectively agreed working time reductions. The increasing importance of part-time work is interpreted less as a shift in emphasis from "collective" to "individual" working time reductions than as a concomitant of increasing, female labour market participation which may represent a transition to equal status of men and women in working life. On the basis of the European experiences reported in the other articles contained in this issue, the author discusses possible paths to a revival of collective bargaining and statutory policy in the working time field.

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  • Steffen Lehndorff, 1998. "From "collective" to "individual" reductions in working time ?," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 4(4), pages 598-620, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:treure:v:4:y:1998:i:4:p:598-620
    DOI: 10.1177/102425899800400404
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    1. Robert Plasman, 1997. "Working hours and economic growth: an analysis by decomposition into trend and cycle," Brussels Economic Review, in: Gerhard Bosch & Danièle Meulders & François Michon (ed.),Working time: new issues, new norms, new measures - Le temps de travail :nouveaux enjeux, nouvelles normes, nouvelles mesures, pages 111-138, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
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