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by Laurent GUERBY on Sun Jun 25th, 2006 at 04:20:55 PM EST
Look at the strength of traditional gender roles in Malta!

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jun 25th, 2006 at 04:33:32 PM EST
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Yep, that's what the report notes too :)
by Laurent GUERBY on Sun Jun 25th, 2006 at 05:03:26 PM EST
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Data:

From the graph (0.5 accuracy per pixel reading)
inactivity illness explanation
FR male 6.5 female 20.0 total 26.5 male 1.5 female 1.5
UK male 9.0 female 23.0 total 32.0 male 5.0 female 5.0

From OECD 2004 on the 25-54 (see here)
unemployment participation employment/population
FR male 7.4 93.6 86.7 female 9.8 79.8 72.0 both 8.5 86.6 79.2
UK male 3.8 91.0 87.5 female 3.4 76.8 74.2 both 3.6 83.8 80.7

by Laurent GUERBY on Sun Jun 25th, 2006 at 04:50:32 PM EST
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So UK has 2.3 time less official unemployment on this age group (3.6% vs 8.5%). All of this with only 1.5% more employed people. This is to say about all of the difference in unemployment comes from the UK government convincing people they're inactive and not unemployed (in various ways) whereas the FR government wasn't as successful at this game. 1-0 for Blair. See the "willing to work" figure below for the so-called "inactive".
by Laurent GUERBY on Sun Jun 25th, 2006 at 05:01:22 PM EST
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Since part time employment is 13.4% of employment in FR  vs 24.1% in UK, this makes the 1.5% difference in employment even less impressive as a 10 point difference is about 7 points of the whole population (if we assume 25-54 has more or less the same part time share as 15-64).
by Laurent GUERBY on Mon Jun 26th, 2006 at 07:28:19 AM EST
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