ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the impact of work sharing on the household economy, especially to the amount of social income transfers to the family. It aims to compare two different possibilities which may be used to share an eight hour post. One way is for the worker is to become part-time. The other is for the worker to stop work and take job rotation leave. Fundamental to the applicability and effectiveness of working time systems is whether they are regarded as desirable by the members. In part-time work based on the part-time benefit system a worker shares the working day or the working week with her/his replacement. Alternatively, both of them work alternate weeks within the pay period. The permanent worker sharing her/his work is paid half of the lost earnings in the form of the so-called part-time benefit. The drop in disposable income caused by work sharing is greatest in the higher wage brackets.
