The trade-off between the short- and long-term effects of the deregulation of shopping hours must be taken into account by policy-makers when introducing new legislation. In this paper, we argue that while long-term efficiency gains can be expected from relaxed shopping hours in Canada,...

This paper evaluates five recent experiences of worksharing in Quebec since 1994: Bell Canada, Alcan, Scott Paper, Sico, and the Ministère de l'environnement et de la faune. Based on survey evidence showing that desired work hours tend to approximate actual work hours, previous studies have...

The Ontario experience with respect to pay equity is evaluated based on a set of program-evaluation citeria. Such criteria are informative in their own right, but they also provide a systematic way of categorizing the issues that are involved in evaluating pay equity in general, with the Ontario...