New Study Finds the 'Optimal' Length of a Workweek (and It's Not 40 Hours)

The pension reform is expected to bring, among other things, an increase in the retirement age. How do young people view this - even in light of the extraordinary technological progress - and will a sustainable system await them?

New Study Finds the 'Optimal' Length of a Workweek (and It's Not 40 Hours)

Most employees don’t have much say in the length of their workweek: A full-time position stipulates a certain amount of hours, and that’s how much you have to work. Period. But how much would people want to work if they could choose their total hours — even knowing that less work means less pay? In a new working paper shared by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Duke University economists analyzed data from Germany and found that the “opt…