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most people do not get to choose how much they work. It's companies that tell thm. So unless you impose social norms on companies, they will tell workers what they want, and that's likely to be fewer workers working longer hours, if they can get away with it, because it will be cheaper to them (although probably not to society).

Freedom to work more exists only if there is a balance between the demand and the supply of labor. With structural underemployment (whether via unemployment, part time employment or other schemes), the threat of using illegal immigrants or offshoring activity, there is no balance.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sat Jun 9th, 2007 at 12:35:29 PM EST
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The UK is a mirror image of France: the latter has the 35h week and the former negotiated a waiver of the European Working Time Directive.

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Jun 9th, 2007 at 12:40:59 PM EST
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