Economics for everybody : The impacts of reducing working hours on companies by Kentaro Asai

We spend most of our lives working. The organization and duration of working hours have a major impact on citizens and the economy as a whole, fuelling important debates…

Published on 05/28/2024 01:00

Kentaro Asai analyzes how reducing working hours can influence not only employment, but also well-being and productivity, using Portugal as an example.

The question to… Kentaro Asai: What are the impacts of reducing working hours for companies

Kentaro Asai
PSE PhD
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Kentaro Asai is a PhD student at Paris School of Economics. His research fields are Labor Economics and Applied Microeconometrics, with particular interests in working hours, income inequalities, and gender wage gaps.

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Asai K., Lopes M. C. & Tondini A., 2023, Firm-Level Effects of Reductions in Working Hour, PSE manuscript.
Keynes J. M., 1930, “Economic possibilities for our grandchildren”, Essays in persuasion, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 321-332.
Lepinteur A., 2019, “The Shorter Workweek and Worker Wellbeing: Evidence from Portugal and France”, Labour Economics 58, 204–220.
Raposo P. S. & van Ours J. C., 2010, “How Working Time Reduction Affects Jobs and Wages”, Economics Letters 106 (1), 61–63.

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