Wesley Stevenson
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1,470 appearances
54 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2010
last heard May 2015
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Out of the OECD's 34 members altogether, only the workers of Chile and South Korea come higher.
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German workers only manage 1,400 hours a year, close to the top of the OECD's lazy chart.
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The average Greek is working 40% longer.
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I'm guessing this can't be the full picture.
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No.
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Pascal Mariana is a labour market statistician at the OECD.
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And it's not just the part-time workers.
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There's another factor that skews the figures, and that's the high number of self-employed workers in Greece.
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These workers tend to work longer hours than those on fixed contracts.
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The figures we have are correct.
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If you accounted for these factors, stripping away part-time and self-employed people, and looked at just full-time salaried workers... Let me guess.
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The Germans work harder than the Greeks.
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No.
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You take out the part-time and the self-employed workers and the gap narrows, but the Greeks are still working almost 10% more hours than the Germans.
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And this is because the Germans take more holiday, they take more sickness leave, on average around four weeks more than the Greeks.
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Yeah, I mean, that's the sort of scenario that might mean that there's more work going on in total in Germany, but fewer hours per worker.
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And to figure that out, you'd need to look not at the hours per worker, but the hours per adult citizen of working age.
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So this would include...
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the unemployed, people in early retirement, stay-at-home parents and so on.
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Pascal Mariana says that even on this hours per adult measure, the Greeks still beat Germany, but the gap is even narrower because only 60% of the working age Greeks have jobs versus 72% of the Germans.
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