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Peer reviewedNemirow, Martin – Monthly Labor Review, 1984
Compares the work sharing efforts during the Depression in the 1930s with short-term compensation programs used today as an alternative to extensive layoffs. The effects of work-sharing on productivity in German industry are also examined. (SK)
Descriptors: Job Layoff, Job Sharing, Unemployment, Working Hours
Peer reviewedDawkins, Peter J. – Economics, 1983
Recently, high unemployment and a high perceived rate of technological change have created interest in work-sharing. Definitions of different types of work-sharing and theoretical and practical issues related to work-sharing are covered. Work-sharing is not necessarily a panacea, but it does show the potential to help. (Author/IS)
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Foreign Countries, Job Sharing, Labor Market
Download full textKerachsky, Stuart; And Others – 1981
Shared-work compensation (SWC) can provide a method whereby layoffs and unemployment may be avoided by reducing all workers' time. As compensation, workers receive a comparable percentage of their unemployment insurance benefits. Although Western European countries have used work-sharing programs and Canada has implemented an experimental SWC…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Education, Demonstration Programs, Employees
Peer reviewedRathkey, Paul – Employee Relations, 1986
In this article, the intention is to examine the development of the trade union approach to working time, assess its successes and failures, and seek an understanding of the movement toward reduced working time. From that assessment, it is argued that prevailing strategies are unlikely to bear dividends in terms of their own objectives--the…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Employer Attitudes, Flexible Working Hours, Government Role
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, 2005
In October of 2002, Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC) announced that it would participate in a $246.5 million Government of Canada initiative to support workers and communities in regions of high unemployment. The $71 million HRSDC portion was composed of three primary components: (1) Work Sharing While Learning (WSWL)--This new program…
Descriptors: Evidence, Job Sharing, Summative Evaluation, Program Evaluation
Schroeder, Karsten – 1983
In the Federal Republic of Germany, as elsewhere, the recent unemployment crisis has forced politicians, economists, trade unionists, and experts to consider a number of courses of action designed to reduce working time. Included among these alternatives are the following: adopting the 35-hour work week, shortening working life through early…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices
Wong, Ging, Ed.; Picot, Garnett, Ed. – 2001
This is the first of two volumes of selected papers presented at the 1996 conference on "Changes in Working Time in Canada and the United States." Eleven chapters focus on weekly hours worked by individuals, including the recent changes in the distribution of weekly working time in Canada and the U.S., implications of the changing…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Developed Nations, Employment, Employment Level
