eversince it's been weakened by Chirac's various governments since 2002, the job creation has been much weaker

there may be no link

I think it would be better if Jerome came out and actually argued that there is causation, because then we'd have a falsifiable hypothesis, but he's being a politician. </snark>

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

Find this: http://www.legrandsoir.info/article.php3?id_article=1722

Extract this quote:

Oui, la RTT a créé des emplois : 350 000 selon la DARES, 400 000 selon la CDC, 500 000 selon l'IRES.

Go to www.google.com
Type "35 heures DARES"

Find this great site with lots of links: http://hussonet.free.fr/35h.htm

Open this one in particular: http://hussonet.free.fr/35asken.pdf (pdf)

Extract this:

Abstract: This text gives an analytical review of the first main estimations of the impacts of the Aubry's law on employment in France. Both macro and micro approaches seem to converge to about 300 000 net job creations in the short-term, mainly in pioneer firms ("Aubry I" firms). However, because these first movers have made the choice to anticipate the legal commitment, these estimations can be affected by an auto-selection bias. The latter have not been yet robustly corrected. Further researches are thus required to confirm positive impacts of shorter working time on employment.

As one would say: pas besoin d'avoir fait Polytechnique...

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