Working Time in Comparative Perspective: Volume I - Patterns, Trends, and Policy Implications of Earnings Inequality and Unemployment Working Time in Comparative Perspective: Volume I - Patterns, Trends, and Policy Implications of Earnings Inequality and Unemployment
Ging Wong and Garnett Picot, Editors
First Chapter | Table of Contents

387 pp. 2001
$56.00 cloth 978-0-88099-228-2
$25.00 paper 978-0-88099-227-5

The chapters in the first volume focus on weekly hours worked by individuals, including changes in the distribution of weekly working time in Canada and the United States, the implications of the changing distribution of hours worked for earnings inequality, and efforts to reduce unemployment through mandated hours reductions.