Work Sharing and Productivity: Evidence from Firm Level Data

P. Lanoie, F. Raymond and B. Shearer

Working Papers from Laval - Recherche en Politique Economique

Abstract: This paper is the first to examine empirically how work sharing influences workers' productivity, using a unique data set from a large Canadian firm. This firm has adopted a work sharing scheme for one year, which allows us to introduce a "natural experiment approach" of comparing workers' productivity before and after the implementation of work sharing. We find that work sharing has led to a significant decrease in labor productivity.

Keywords: PRODUCTIVITY; LABOUR MARKET; ENTERPRISES (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J20 J24 J50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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