| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 企業管理系 === 89 === The Republic of China had updated the 30th clause of Labor law to reduce the work hours from 48 hours per week to 84 hours biweekly in 2000 and it had been effective in 2001. The public and academia concern the new policy, but there is no consensus appeared. We hope to find out the effect of reducing work hours to the economics by using time series analysis upon the historical data from Japan.
We first collected relative historical data of reducing work hours from Japan so that we could realize the background of this policy and the effect to the enterprises. Then we made our thesis structure by combining the model from relative research about product, hire, manpower, overtime, profit in business and the factor of legally reduced work hours. The reduce work hour policy has been carrier out in Japan since 1988 and its background of industry development is pretty similar and far more advanced in business operation to Taiwan. The Japanese example could make up the practical incompetents of the reducing-working-hour theory and lessen the doubt from the public as well as do some help to our government in making reasonable policies.
According to the analytical result from the Japanese industry, reduction of working hours could increase the number of hiring and the manpower product, but no significant effect was found in output, overtime and profit. We could generally conclude that reduce of work hours policy might have some positive effect to the Japanese economic by these 5 important index. At least we don’t have sufficient evidence to prove any negative effect to the economic. It’s generally believed that the manufactory industry would sustain more impact than other industries by this policy, so we may believe that the impact would be smaller in other industries. By the experiences from Japan, we could conclude that the enterprises in Taiwan could be less doubt on this policy if the government would take appropriate actions.
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