Identifying the Potential of Work‐Sharing as a Job‐Creation Strategy
研究加拿大魁北克省1997-2000年将标准周工时从44小时降至40小时的政策效果，发现尽管全职员工超时工作减少20%，但该政策未能显著提升省级或受影响行业的就业水平。
Between 1997 and 2000, the Canadian province of Quebec reduced its standard workweek from 44 to 40 hours with the aim of stimulating employment growth. Unlike the European work-sharing policies examined elsewhere, the Quebec policy contained no suggestion or requirement that employers provide wage increases to compensate workers for lost hours. For this reason, among others, the Quebec policy provides a better test of the potential of work-sharing as a job-creation strategy. The evidence suggests that, despite a 20% reduction among full-time workers in weekly hours worked beyond 40, the policy failed to raise employment at either the provincial level or within industries where hours of work were affected relatively more.