Working Time in Comparative Perspective, Volume 1: Patterns, Trends, and Policy Implications of Earnings Inequality and Unemployment

Edited by Ging Wong () and Garnett Picot

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Abstract: The chapters in this 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.

Keywords: hours worked; earnings inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
ISBN: cloth 9780880992282 paper 9780880992275
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