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Working Time in Comparative Perspective

A steady redistribution of working time occurred during the last two to three decades. Although the average number of hours clocked by workers changed little during this period, the manner in which the economy distributed working time was transformed. Hours became more polarized, with some workers working more, others less. In addition, as more women entered the labor force, they confronted issues -- such as the conflict between work and family responsibilities -- that influenced their labor supply decisions.

These concerns led many researchers to direct their attention to "flexible hours," methods such as job sharing and other nonstandard work arrangements used for facilitating flexibility in hours worked. In addition, researchers also became interested to how this increased flexibility impacts worker performance and productivity. This level of interest in working-time issues resulted in the conference from which the chapters in these two volumes were drawn. The conference, "Changes in Working Time in Canada and the United States," was jointly sponsored by the Canadian Employment Research Forum (CERF), the W.E. Upjohn Institute, and Statistics Canada. It was held in Ottawa, Ontario in June 1996.

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Volume I
Patterns, Trends, and Policy Implications of Earnings Inequality and Unemployment

Ging Wong, Privy Council Office, Government of Canada
Garnett Picot, Statistics Canada, Editors

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The chapters in the first volume focus on weekly hours worked by individuals, including the recent 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. Included are

  • The Changing Workweek , Mike Sheridan, Deborah Sunter, and Brent Diverty
  • Trends in Hours of Work in the United States , Philip L. Rones, Jennifer M. Gardner, and Randy E. Ilg
  • Working Hard , Linda Bell and Richard B. Freeman
  • Working Time, Wages, and Earnings Inequality among Men and Women in Canada, 1981 1993 , Garnett Picot
  • Patterns of Foregone Potential Earnings among Working-Age Males, 1975-1992 , Robert Haveman, Lawrence Burton, and Andrew Bershadker
  • The Growth of Income and Employment Inequality in Australian Cities , R.G. Gregory and Boyd Hunter
  • Supply of Hours per Day and Days per Week -- Evidence from the Canadian Labour Market Activity Survey , Richard E. Mueller
  • Hours Constraints , Kevin Lang and Shulamit Kahn
  • Measuring the Effects of Short-Time Compensation on Workforce Dynamics , Karen Needels and Walter Nicholson
  • Short-Time Work in the United States , Alec R. Levenson
  • Economic Activities and the Demand for Work Sharing in Canada , Tom Siedule, Carol Guest, and Ging Wong
387 pp. $56 cloth ISBN 0-88099-228-X
$25 paper ISBN 0-88099-227-1 / 2001.

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Volume II
Life-Cycle Working Time
and Nonstandard Work

Susan Houseman, W.E. Upjohn Institute
Alice Nakamura, University of Alberta, Editors

Introductory chapter | Table of Contents

In this second volume, the chapters explore an expanded set of working-time issues, which may be loosely grouped under two topics: 1) working time over the life cycle, and 2) nonstandard work arrangements (e.g., temporary work, job sharing and moonlighting). Included are

  • The Life-Cycle of Working Time in the United States and Canada: Long-Term Evidence , John D. Owen
  • Perspectives on Working Time over the Life Cycle , Michael Wolfson and Geoff Rowe
  • Adults Returning to School -- Payoffs from Studying at a Community College , Duane E. Leigh and Andrew M. Gill
  • Children's Effects on Women's Labor Market Attachment and Earnings , William E. Even and David A. Macpherson
  • U.S. Health Policy and Mothers of Children with Disabilities , Janet Hunt-McCool
  • Early Retirees of a Telecommunications Firm -- Patterns of Employment and Working Time , Gangaram Singh and Anil Verma
  • Working Time Over the Life Cycle: Do Public Pensions Matter?, Michael Baker and Dwayne Benjamin
  • Self-Employment and Schedule Flexibility for Married Females: Evidence for the United States from SIPP , Theresa J. Devine
  • Work Site and Work Hours: The Labor Force Flexibility of Home-Based Female Workers , Linda N. Edwards and Elizabeth Field-Hendry
  • A Comparative Analysis of Moonlighting in Canada and the United States , Jean Kimmel and Lisa M. Powell
  • Large Companies and the Changing Use of Temporary Workers: Trends and Impacts on Financial Measures of Performance , Shulamit Kahn, Fred Foulkes, and Jeffrey Heisler
372 pp. $56 cloth ISBN 0-88099-230-1
$25 paper ISBN 0-88099-229-8 / 2001.

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