M Antal
Biographic Data
| ID | 32633 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Antal |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Antal |
| SIGNATURE | ANTAL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eötvös Loránd University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3426-9916 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The feasibility of working time reductions: Labor market segmentation by practical work conditions
Generalized claims regarding the feasibility of working time reductions (WTRs) dominate academic and public discourse. This is a critical gap in the literature on sustainable economies because widespread WTRs are likely to be essential. This article describes a representative survey of the Hungarian workforce (N = 1,016) with questions focused on known determinants of the practical feasibility of various WTRs. We identify six statistically distin…
Why and How Workers Choose Less Work for Less Money: A Mixed‐Methods Study on a Working Time Reduction Scheme in Germany
This study examines workers' motives for joining or rejecting a voluntary 28‐h work‐time reduction scheme in Germany. Using a mixed‐methods design that combines semi‐structured interviews and a survey of eligible employees, we analyse how personal, financial, and professional considerations shape decisions about shorter hours. Two main motivational categories emerge: a desire for greater work‐life balance, and concerns about income loss and caree…
Too good to be true: The English-language discourse of working time reductions and its implications for environmental sustainability
Working time reduction (WTR), particularly in the form of a four-day workweek, has emerged as a topical issue in the future-of-work discourse amplified by the Covid-19 pandemic. This is relevant from a sustainability perspective since WTR has long been considered as potentially beneficial for the environment. Utilising Framing Theory, we study the characteristics of the current online, written media discourse of WTR that matter for sustainability…
A conceptual model of openness to working time reduction based on interviews with Hungarian fathers
Travailler moins? Revue systématique des préférences et décisions en matière de temps de travail
Malgré les retombées économiques, sociales et environnementales de l'évolution du temps de travail, les études sur les préférences en la matière sont dispersées entre diverses disciplines et disséminées dans de multiples revues. Dans cette revue systématique de la littérature fondée sur 173 articles, il est démontré que les études existantes concernent un petit nombre de pays de l'OCDE, portent surtout sur les professions médicales et font essent…
Working time reduction: Employers’ perspectives and eco-social implications – ten cases from Hungary
Working time reduction (WTR) refers to an increasingly popular group of eco-social policies, with various potential implications for social security and sustainable welfare depending on the details of implementation. Despite the growing number of international examples, WTRs constitute a countertrend in Hungary where the government aims to create a ‘work-based society’. In this context, we investigate whether and how companies launch WTRs, and st…
The practical feasibility of working time reduction: Do we have sufficient data
Több őszinteséget, új közgazdaságtant: A gazdasági növekedés meghaladásának stratégiái
Gazdasági tevékenységeink ökológiai és éghajlati katasztrófát indítottak el. A szakirodalom szerint a nemzetközileg elfogadott fenntarthatósági célok elérése valószínűtlen a termelés és fogyasztás csökkentése nélkül. A főáramú közgazdaságtan és politika a gazdasági növekedésre mégsem az élhető és békés jövőt fenyegető veszélyforrásként, hanem alapvető és pozitív célként tekint. Miért? Bár a termelés és fogyasztás további növelésének jólléti hatás…
What are the social outcomes of climate policies? A systematic map and review of the ex-post literature
It is critical to ensure climate and energy policies are just, equitable and beneficial for communities, both to sustain public support for decarbonisation and address multifaceted societal challenges. Our objective in this article is to examine the diverse social outcomes that have resulted from climate policies, in varying contexts worldwide, over the past few decades. We review 203 ex-post climate policy assessments that analyse social outcome…
Let's focus more on negative trends: A comment on the transitions research agenda
Much has been written on sustainability transitions, yet all around us unsustainable developments remain rife, and threaten to offset the progress made in other areas. This viewpoint argues that transitions scholarship should widen its scope to consider unsustainable trends, which it has tended to neglect to date. We argue that there is merit in applying the transitions lens to these developments, not least because of its systemic approach, which…
Post-growth strategies can be more feasible than techno-fixes: Focus on working time
For sufficiently fast climate change mitigation, strategies once considered unthinkable have to be discussed. As negative-emission technologies and solar geoengineering are risky, social and economic innovations are needed as well. Working time reduction is a completely neglected strategy that needs urgent attention in climate-economy models and policy
Challenges in Assessing Public Opinion on Economic Growth Versus Environment: Considering European and US Data
Degrowth: A “missile word” that backfires
The behavioral basis of policies fostering long-run transitions: Stakeholders, limited rationality and social context
Green goals and full employment: Are they compatible
Nature as relationship partner: An old frame revisited
Language use that embodies a mechanistic, instrumental view of nature contributes to the environmental predicament. This paper argues that interpersonal relationships can be applied as suitable analogies and metaphors for human–nature relationships. To show that such reframing is necessary and possible, we used the Google Ngram Viewer to study how often expressions from different frames of nature were used in English language books between 1800 a…
The art of the cognitive war to save the planet
The behavioral basis of policies fostering long-run transitions: Stakeholders, limited rationality and social context
Let's focus more on negative trends: A comment on the transitions research agenda
Much has been written on sustainability transitions, yet all around us unsustainable developments remain rife, and threaten to offset the progress made in other areas. This viewpoint argues that transitions scholarship should widen its scope to consider unsustainable trends, which it has tended to neglect to date. We argue that there is merit in applying the transitions lens to these developments, not least because of its systemic approach, which…
Challenges in Assessing Public Opinion on Economic Growth Versus Environment: Considering European and US Data
Post-growth strategies can be more feasible than techno-fixes: Focus on working time
For sufficiently fast climate change mitigation, strategies once considered unthinkable have to be discussed. As negative-emission technologies and solar geoengineering are risky, social and economic innovations are needed as well. Working time reduction is a completely neglected strategy that needs urgent attention in climate-economy models and policy
Working time reduction: Employers’ perspectives and eco-social implications – ten cases from Hungary
Working time reduction (WTR) refers to an increasingly popular group of eco-social policies, with various potential implications for social security and sustainable welfare depending on the details of implementation. Despite the growing number of international examples, WTRs constitute a countertrend in Hungary where the government aims to create a ‘work-based society’. In this context, we investigate whether and how companies launch WTRs, and st…
The practical feasibility of working time reduction: Do we have sufficient data
Nature as relationship partner: An old frame revisited
Language use that embodies a mechanistic, instrumental view of nature contributes to the environmental predicament. This paper argues that interpersonal relationships can be applied as suitable analogies and metaphors for human–nature relationships. To show that such reframing is necessary and possible, we used the Google Ngram Viewer to study how often expressions from different frames of nature were used in English language books between 1800 a…
The art of the cognitive war to save the planet
Green goals and full employment: Are they compatible
Nature as relationship partner: An old frame revisited
Language use that embodies a mechanistic, instrumental view of nature contributes to the environmental predicament. This paper argues that interpersonal relationships can be applied as suitable analogies and metaphors for human–nature relationships. To show that such reframing is necessary and possible, we used the Google Ngram Viewer to study how often expressions from different frames of nature were used in English language books between 1800 a…
The behavioral basis of policies fostering long-run transitions: Stakeholders, limited rationality and social context
Degrowth: A “missile word” that backfires
Challenges in Assessing Public Opinion on Economic Growth Versus Environment: Considering European and US Data
Post-growth strategies can be more feasible than techno-fixes: Focus on working time
For sufficiently fast climate change mitigation, strategies once considered unthinkable have to be discussed. As negative-emission technologies and solar geoengineering are risky, social and economic innovations are needed as well. Working time reduction is a completely neglected strategy that needs urgent attention in climate-economy models and policy
What are the social outcomes of climate policies? A systematic map and review of the ex-post literature
It is critical to ensure climate and energy policies are just, equitable and beneficial for communities, both to sustain public support for decarbonisation and address multifaceted societal challenges. Our objective in this article is to examine the diverse social outcomes that have resulted from climate policies, in varying contexts worldwide, over the past few decades. We review 203 ex-post climate policy assessments that analyse social outcome…
Let's focus more on negative trends: A comment on the transitions research agenda
Much has been written on sustainability transitions, yet all around us unsustainable developments remain rife, and threaten to offset the progress made in other areas. This viewpoint argues that transitions scholarship should widen its scope to consider unsustainable trends, which it has tended to neglect to date. We argue that there is merit in applying the transitions lens to these developments, not least because of its systemic approach, which…
Több őszinteséget, új közgazdaságtant: A gazdasági növekedés meghaladásának stratégiái
Gazdasági tevékenységeink ökológiai és éghajlati katasztrófát indítottak el. A szakirodalom szerint a nemzetközileg elfogadott fenntarthatósági célok elérése valószínűtlen a termelés és fogyasztás csökkentése nélkül. A főáramú közgazdaságtan és politika a gazdasági növekedésre mégsem az élhető és békés jövőt fenyegető veszélyforrásként, hanem alapvető és pozitív célként tekint. Miért? Bár a termelés és fogyasztás további növelésének jólléti hatás…
The practical feasibility of working time reduction: Do we have sufficient data
Working time reduction: Employers’ perspectives and eco-social implications – ten cases from Hungary
Working time reduction (WTR) refers to an increasingly popular group of eco-social policies, with various potential implications for social security and sustainable welfare depending on the details of implementation. Despite the growing number of international examples, WTRs constitute a countertrend in Hungary where the government aims to create a ‘work-based society’. In this context, we investigate whether and how companies launch WTRs, and st…
Travailler moins? Revue systématique des préférences et décisions en matière de temps de travail
Malgré les retombées économiques, sociales et environnementales de l'évolution du temps de travail, les études sur les préférences en la matière sont dispersées entre diverses disciplines et disséminées dans de multiples revues. Dans cette revue systématique de la littérature fondée sur 173 articles, il est démontré que les études existantes concernent un petit nombre de pays de l'OCDE, portent surtout sur les professions médicales et font essent…
Too good to be true: The English-language discourse of working time reductions and its implications for environmental sustainability
Working time reduction (WTR), particularly in the form of a four-day workweek, has emerged as a topical issue in the future-of-work discourse amplified by the Covid-19 pandemic. This is relevant from a sustainability perspective since WTR has long been considered as potentially beneficial for the environment. Utilising Framing Theory, we study the characteristics of the current online, written media discourse of WTR that matter for sustainability…
A conceptual model of openness to working time reduction based on interviews with Hungarian fathers
The feasibility of working time reductions: Labor market segmentation by practical work conditions
Generalized claims regarding the feasibility of working time reductions (WTRs) dominate academic and public discourse. This is a critical gap in the literature on sustainable economies because widespread WTRs are likely to be essential. This article describes a representative survey of the Hungarian workforce (N = 1,016) with questions focused on known determinants of the practical feasibility of various WTRs. We identify six statistically distin…
Why and How Workers Choose Less Work for Less Money: A Mixed‐Methods Study on a Working Time Reduction Scheme in Germany
This study examines workers' motives for joining or rejecting a voluntary 28‐h work‐time reduction scheme in Germany. Using a mixed‐methods design that combines semi‐structured interviews and a survey of eligible employees, we analyse how personal, financial, and professional considerations shape decisions about shorter hours. Two main motivational categories emerge: a desire for greater work‐life balance, and concerns about income loss and caree…
Economics (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Sustainability (5 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works)