Short-time work has prevented a drastic slump in employment in Europe. The United States has not been so lucky.
Maria Figueroa, Ian Greer and Toralf Pusch
Maria Figueroa is director of labour and policy research at the Worker Institute in the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations; Ian Greer is director of the Ithaca Co-Lab there. Toralf Pusch is a senior researcher at the institute of Social and Economic Research (WSI) of the Hans Böckler Foundation.