The answers of 10,000 respondents in August-December 2009 on the continuousWageIndicator web survey (in Germany called Lohnspiegel) indicate that the official short-time arrangement has been widely used. Overall, the arrangement was used by 19% of all companies, but by a much larger part (35%) in companies that were hit by the crisis since the beginning of 2009. The score was even 73% among metal firms hit by the crisis. One in five respondents answered that their monthly wages had recently decreased; in metal manufacturing this was even one in three. The researchers of the Hans Böckler Foundation, in analysing the results, suggest that short-time work played a major role in decreasing wages.
German: http://www.boeckler.de/320_102969.html
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