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Travailler plus? Travailler moins? Que preferent les travailleurs canadiens?

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  • Drolet, Marie
  • Morissette, Rene

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Aux prises avec des taux de chomage eleves, une repartition inegale des heures de travail et un virage vers des emplois temporaires, a temps partiel et contractuels, les travailleurs canadiens prefereraient peut-etre modifier leur horaire de travail. A partir des donnees de l'Enquete sur les horaires et les conditions de travail de1995, nous avons constate que les deux tiers des travailleurs canadiens sont satisfaits de leurs heures de travail. La majorite des personnes insatisfaites prefereraienttravailler un plus grand nombre d'heures contre une remuneration plus elevee plutot qu'un plus petit nombre d'heures contre une remuneration plus faible. Cette conclusion s'impose pour chaque groupe d'age, niveau de scolarite, niveau d'anciennete, secteur d'activite et groupe professionnel. Les personnes les plus susceptibles de vouloir travailler un plus grand nombre d'heures sont generalement jeunes, ont un niveau de scolarite peu eleve, ont peu d'annees d'anciennete, occupent des postes temporaires, travaillent un petit nombre d'heures, et occupent des postes peu specialises. D'autre part, les personnes les plus susceptibles de vouloir diminuer leur semaine de travail sont des professionnels et des gestionnaires, travaillent dans les secteurs des sciences naturelles et sociales, ont des salaires horaires et des niveaux de scolarite eleves, ont beaucoup d'anciennete, occupent des postes permanents et travaillent deja un grand nombre d'heures. Les calculs fondes sur les resultats de l'Enquete sur la reduction des heures de travail de 1985 laissent supposer que si les travailleurs canadiens devaient volontairement reduire leur semaine de travail, le nombre d'heures de travail qui pourraient etre redistribuees serait probablement insuffisant pour eliminer le sous-emploi et reduire le chomage. Les possibilites de reamenager le temps de travail, mesurees par la tendance a vouloir travailler un nombre d'heures moins eleve,semblent etre les meilleures (plus faibles) chez les groupes d'age-niveau de scolarite affectes par des taux de chomage relativement faibles (eleves). Cela signifie que la diminution du chomage et du sous-emploi pourrait etre plus prononcee chez les groupes ou les travailleurs sont deja relativement prosperes.

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  • Drolet, Marie & Morissette, Rene, 1997. "Travailler plus? Travailler moins? Que preferent les travailleurs canadiens?," Direction des études analytiques : documents de recherche 1997104f, Statistics Canada, Direction des études analytiques.
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