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The clunky debate over four versus five days should be replaced by a focus on flexibility and individal autonomy.
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Enzo Weber is a professor of economics at the Institute for Employment Research, Germany’s largest institute in the social sciences. He is a researcher and political adviser in the transformation of labour markets, demographic change and social security.

The clunky debate over four versus five days should be replaced by a focus on flexibility and individal autonomy.

In a Europe of increasingly non-standard employment, social protection for all is more rather than less imperative.

Philippa Sigl-Glöckner and Enzo Weber
Reining in demand via monetary policy will not solve a supply problem.