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    February 17, 2025

    Spain | Reducing the workday through agreements, investment, and productivity gains

    The parliamentary process should amend the proposal so that the reduction of the workday happens gradually, with increases in productivity and through collective bargaining, minimizing distortions and avoiding additional inefficiencies in the labor market.

    July 5, 2024

    Spain | How to reduce working hours

    Reducing the work week is laudable, but how we go about it is key to achieving the desired effects. Collective bargaining is the ideal instrument to adapt the needs of companies and workers to each business and sectoral reality, in an effective and flexible manner.

    May 27, 2024

    Spain | Reduction of working hours and productivity

    Evidence shows that permanent improvements in productivity lead to a gradual reduction in hours worked per employee. In contrast, reversing this order of causality hinders employment growth.

    December 21, 2023

    Spain | Proposal to reduce the maximum legal working hours: incidence and potential impact

    The objectives of this study aim to gauge the impact of the reduction in the legal maximum working hours, pinpoint potentially affected workers, estimate the macroeconomic repercussions, and propose economic policy measures to amplify the positive effects of the reform while mitigating the negative ones.

    March 6, 2023

    Spain | Working hours and type of contract

    The severe economic consequences of the pandemic and the implementation of furlough schemes have highlighted the important role that working hours can play when adjusting the labor market to the current climate.