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Longer Working Hours — The Beginning of a New Trend?

In: Designing the European Model

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  • Seppo Honkapohja

    (Bank of Finland
    EEAG)

  • Frank Westermann

    (EEAG
    University of Osnabrueck)

Abstract

A number of company-level agreements on longer working hours have recently been concluded in Germany. Such deals, for example, at Siemens and DaimlerChrysler have been widely publicised. The increases in working time have taken place without — or with only partial — pay compensation and thus represent cuts in hourly wages. They have in many cases occurred in response to employer threats of outsourcing production to lower-cost facilities abroad.

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  • Seppo Honkapohja & Frank Westermann, 2009. "Longer Working Hours — The Beginning of a New Trend?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Seppo Honkapohja & Frank Westermann (ed.), Designing the European Model, chapter 5, pages 144-174, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-23665-3_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230236653_6
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