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Decent Work and Economic Growth pp 1–12Cite as

Economic Growth, Technological Progress, and Employment

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

Synonyms

Decent work; Labor-capital substitutability/complementarity; Technical change; Technological progress; Technological revolutions; Worked hours; Working/work time

Definitions

Decent working time is one of the dimensions of decent work and one key variable in determining the goodness of working conditions. By decent working time is intended a workday short enough to allow workers to spend a significant fraction of their available time for non-working activities, family, and leisure, but also spare time to use in other unpaid production activities like home production. Working time is related to technological factors driving the growth of labor productivity.

Introduction

The International Labour Office (ILO) defined “decent work” as “promoting opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work, in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity” (ILO 1999, p. 3). One of the multiple dimensions of decent work is that related with decent work time (ILO, 2005...

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  1. Faculty of Economics and Business, Department of Economics and Economic History, University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain

    Anelí Bongers

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    Benedetto Molinari

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Bongers, A., Molinari, B. (2020). Economic Growth, Technological Progress, and Employment. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Decent Work and Economic Growth. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71058-7_62-1

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