Working hours and economic performance

Eric Heyer (1) , Mathieu Plane (1)

1 OFCE - Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques (Sciences Po)

Do people work less in France than in the rest of Europe? Is France the only country to have reduced working time in the last decade? Is the 35-hour work week really dragging down the French economy? The report published on 11 January by the Coe-Rexecode Institute provides fresh material for answering these questions.

Mots clés: Working time; Economic performance; Coe-Rexecode report

Domaines: Economies et finances

Eric Heyer, Mathieu Plane. Working hours and economic performance: What are the lessons of the COE-Rexecode report?. OFCE Briefing Paper, 2012, 2, pp.1 - 7. ⟨hal-03473838⟩