What’s the effect on unemployment? If a company can make use of (say) 800 hours of assembly-line labor per week, but each worker is providing 32 hours instead of 40, then logically that company should be employing 25 workers instead of 20.
Effect is hard if not impossible to determine but the Netherlands have one of the lowest unemployment rates in Europe.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Europe_by_unemployment_rate
Or move to the country next door.
..to mention just one of the most obvious complexities your suggestion left out.
What’s the effect on unemployment? If a company can make use of (say) 800 hours of assembly-line labor per week, but each worker is providing 32 hours instead of 40, then logically that company should be employing 25 workers instead of 20.
Effect is hard if not impossible to determine but the Netherlands have one of the lowest unemployment rates in Europe.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Europe_by_unemployment_rate
Or move to the country next door.
..to mention just one of the most obvious complexities your suggestion left out.