Description

Real Utopias for a Social Europe consists of technical debate-type workshops on various bold and innovative social policy proposals. Leading policy experts will come together to assess and discuss these policy proposals’ feasibility, distributional impact, costs, and scalability through evidence based on pilots and field experiments, microsimulation studies, actual policy experiences and other empirical research designs. The objective is to bolster a hive mind that can provide rigorous and creative tools to tackle growing socio-economic inequalities in the context of major social and economic transformations ahead.

The second workshop in the series addresses Working Time Reduction and the 4-Day Week, brought together selected experts on these policies to discuss on the pros and cons of these measures, their potential social, environmental and economic impacts from a policy-oriented and evidence-based point of view. This workshop closely fits the European Commission’s priority of dealing with an economy that works for people and a European Green Deal.

Real Utopias for a Social Europe: Working Time Reduction and the 4-Day Week, Summary Report, Salazar Valez, L., Vidal Lorda, G., Noguera, J.A. and Villani, D. editor(s), Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2023, ISBN 978-92-68-00410-4, doi:10.2760/865286, JRC132852.

Practical information

Languages: English
Publisher: European Commission
JRC Number: JRC132852

Real Utopias for a Social Europe: Working Time Reduction and the Four-Day Week

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