Working Hours and Sustainable Development

Devetter, François-Xavier; Rousseau, Sandrine

doi:10.1080/00346764.2011.563507

Cited by 43 publications

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“…Rosnick and Weisbrot (2007) demonstrate that if European countries adopted a US pattern of work and leisure-time distribution they would likely increase their energy consumption by around a quarter. And, a micro-level study of the relationship between working hours and environmental impact in French households revealed that long working hours are positively correlated with affluent consumption and high impact behaviour (Devetter and Rousseau, 2011). Similar results are found by Pullinger (2011) in a comparative study of the UK and the Netherlands in an analysis which accounts for external as well as personal differences between households.…”

Section: Work Time and Environmental Impactsupporting

confidence: 73%

Environmental and Societal Attitudes to Working Hours in Gendered Perspective: Patterns, Preferences and Policy

Arntsen

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Donegani

2018

Review of Political Economy

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This paper begins from the premise that environmental degradation is a profound and present threat and that work time reduction (WTR) -with an associated reduction in consumptionis one of a number of strategies which can be adopted to combat it. As a precursor to looking at how such policies can be supported, our research questions whether environmental attitudes are congruent with work time patterns and preferences. Our initial hypothesis was that those who care most for the environment would work less hours than those who exhibit lower levels of environmental concern, and prefer to do so. However, contra our expectations, our empirical analysis of the European Social Survey shows that those who state they care most about the environment are more likely to work longer hours, and prefer to do so. Overall, men tend to be less concerned about the environment, and work longer. Caring responsibilities, in contrast, fall disproportionately on women. We argue that this reflects traditional gender roles which are a residual from the social norm of the male breadwinner model. Given WTR as an environmental policy the task is to influence preferences and "green" human behaviour, especially among men.

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Section: Work Time and Environmental Impactsupporting

confidence: 73%

Environmental and Societal Attitudes to Working Hours in Gendered Perspective: Patterns, Preferences and Policy

Arntsen

Philp

Donegani

2018

Review of Political Economy

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“…The answer depends on changes of income and of the composition of consumption. Assuming a salary cut that is proportional to the reduction of working hours, the effect of reduced consumption is found to be significantly stronger than the effect of a potential shift towards more resource intensive consumption (Devetter and Rousseau, 2011;Nässén and Larsson, 2015;Pullinger, 2011). In other words, emission reductions and broader environmental benefits look possible.…”

Section: Post-growth Strategies Can Be More Feasible Than Techno-fixementioning

confidence: 97%

Post-growth strategies can be more feasible than techno-fixes: Focus on working time

Antal

2018

The Anthropocene Review

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“…In contrast, a French study finds that households with longer hours of work have higher impact through bigger homes, more transport expenditures and higher expenditures for eating out. (Devetter and Rousseau 2011).…”

Section: Previous Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%