Re: Re: [Pen-l] Michael Lewis on Sarkozy

[Laurent GUERBY <laurent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 10:49 -0400, sawicky@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I suspect the U.S. is lower because of a higher proportion of
> > not-full-timers
> > who suffer from reduced or zero fringes, among other disadvantages.
> > So it would be useful to ensure that like is being compared with
> > like.

Indeed, on my blog (in french) I used total hours worked
by the whole population between UK and France (about the
same for about the same population).

http://guerby.org/blog/index.php/2007/02/27/151-heures-travaillees

The most widely cited data (by economists and journalists) is the
OECD table which has a big warning (just under the table) of not using
it to compare between country. It shows France with a very low total
because overtime is not counted for France whereas it is counted
for other countries.

As usual I don't have access to more detailed data so I can't
say much (excepted that economists and journalists are either
brainless or following their ideology instead of facts, 
but nothing new here :).

Laurent

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