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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.
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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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Bongers, A., Molinari, B. (2021). Decent Working Time and Technological Revolutions. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., 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_62-2
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