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Working Hours and Sustainable Development

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  • François-Xavier Devetter
  • Sandrine Rousseau

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Many works on sustainable development stress the part played by reduced working hours in the promotion of a model for alternative development. The direct link between working hours and the environment, however, still deserves to be supported. This is the issue we would like to discuss through an analysis of the relationships between consumption and working hours. We use surveys on French household expenses to highlight the environmental consequences of long hours: they encourage goods and energy-intensive consumptions and favour conspicuous expenditure and non-sustainable lifestyles.

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  • François-Xavier Devetter & Sandrine Rousseau, 2011. "Working Hours and Sustainable Development," Review of Social Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 69(3), pages 333-355, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rsocec:v:69:y:2011:i:3:p:333-355
    DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.563507
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    1. Langridge Nicholas & Buchs Milena & Howard Neil, 2023. "An Ecological Basic Income? Examining the Ecological Credentials of Basic Income Through a Review of Selected Pilot Interventions," Basic Income Studies, De Gruyter, vol. 18(1), pages 47-87, June.
    2. Chad M. Baum & Christian Gross, 2017. "Sustainability policy as if people mattered: developing a framework for environmentally significant behavioral change," Journal of Bioeconomics, Springer, vol. 19(1), pages 53-95, April.
    3. King, Lewis C. & van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M., 2017. "Worktime Reduction as a Solution to Climate Change: Five Scenarios Compared for the UK," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 132(C), pages 124-134.
    4. Pullinger, Martin, 2014. "Working time reduction policy in a sustainable economy: Criteria and options for its design," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 103(C), pages 11-19.
    5. Richard Bärnthaler & Andreas Novy & Leonhard Plank, 2021. "The Foundational Economy as a Cornerstone for a Social–Ecological Transformation," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(18), pages 1-19, September.

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