%0 Journal Article %T The changing use of short %A Carlos Garc¨ªa-Serrano %A Jos¨¦ M Arranz %A Virginia Hernanz %J European Journal of Industrial Relations %@ 1461-7129 %D 2019 %R 10.1177/0959680117753313 %X We explore differences in resort to short-time work schemes between the recessions in the early 1990s and the late 2000s in Spain and Italy and explore how far these are associated with differences in employees¡¯ personal and job-related characteristics. We use individual data from national Labour Force Surveys and perform a multivariate detailed decomposition. We find that participation in these schemes in the second recession would have been even greater without the changes in skills and production structures in both countries %K Business cycle %K Italy %K multivariate decomposition %K production structures %K recession %K short-time work schemes %K skills %K Spain %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0959680117753313