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There's a very detailed table in a recent Conseil d'Analyse Economique report. I have a photocopy in front of me, but need to dig up the report to get an electronic version and I'll post that when I can (but cannot now wand will be out this afternoon).

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by Jerome a Paris (jeromeguillet@yahoo.fr) on Fri Nov 23rd, 2007 at 05:38:54 AM EST
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If you mean Artus, Cahuc, Zylberberg on Work time, income, employment, it's here.

But it's long and I haven't found the table you mention.

And I also don't think there's a final word on annual hours worked. And wouldn't trust that report to deliver it, anyway.

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Nov 23rd, 2007 at 06:03:02 AM EST
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Have found the table, p. 20.

Mostly it looks solid enough. It shows, however, 100 more hours a year per employee worked in the UK than in France. The justification for this is in Item 4, where about a hundred hours difference is made on the basis of RTT (Work Time Reduction in which employees catch up on extra time done in other weeks or periods).

The footnote to this says the European Union Labour Force Survey data understated RTT and were corrected. (No further explanation).

Sources are cited as (mostly) EULFS and calculations by the authors. The latter obviously refers to the RTT hours, but no calculations are offered.

In this way the report avoids the conclusion that annual work hours in France and the UK are roughly similar.

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Nov 23rd, 2007 at 08:21:10 AM EST
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