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Comments on: Work smarter, not harder http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2015/08/20/work-smarter-not-harder/ The Visible Hand in Economics Sun, 13 Sep 2015 20:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: jamesz http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2015/08/20/work-smarter-not-harder/#comment-43769 Sun, 13 Sep 2015 20:00:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=12696#comment-43769 In reply to ben.

I didn’t propose a hypothesis and, as you rightly point out, there are many possible causal explanations. It’s not at all surprising that there is a negative correlation between the two. Obviously, a country could be also more productive but still poorer.

However, the chart is a useful antidote to complaints about lazy Greeks and the need for all of Southern Europe to work as hard as the industrious Germans.

]]> By: ben http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2015/08/20/work-smarter-not-harder/#comment-43768 Sun, 13 Sep 2015 19:07:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=12696#comment-43768 Really? That simple? I can think of a couple of other hypotheses that can’t be ruled out based on a chart. Like: European labour market rules that exclude the least-productive (youth, immigrants) also limit hours worked. Or: Leisure is a luxury good.

How have you ruled these (rather obvious) alternative explanations?

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