Friday, August 22, 2003

It's the weekend - stop working and go home

From the Economist:

Since 1990 average working hours have dropped sharply in Japan and in most European countries, but have scarcely fallen in America. The gap in work effort is now the single biggest reason why GDP per head is lower in the European Union than in the United States. By contrast, lower productivity is the main reason why other OECD countries are less prosperous than America.

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