{"id":175,"date":"2006-01-06T06:06:44","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T04:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.2\/en\/?p=175"},"modified":"2006-01-06T06:06:44","modified_gmt":"2006-01-06T04:06:44","slug":"franceas-gdp-compared-to-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"France\u00b4s GDP compared to the US"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found a graph on the net that compared<\/a> the GDP of France to that of the US since 1960. As I look at this curve I wonder how is it that a country in which people work so many less hours per week, so many less days a year as a result of vacation, in which unemployment is considerably higher, in which the amount of years spent working so much lower than in the States and which is frequently paralyzed by strikes manages to stay pretty constant at around 77% GDP level of the US? My only conclusion is that when they work the French must be much more productive than the Americans. Otherwise this graph is a big mistery.<\/p>\n

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