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