Denmark: new light on Danish people’s working time

As an answer to the study the OECD made on working time in 2005 (see our story 061021), which puts Denmark in the 24th position right before France and which is often mentioned in Denmark by people who defend the extension of working time, an economic research institute close to social-democrats (the AEraadet) presented an analysis which says the opposite of the calculation pattern used by the OECD and offers not to take into account yearly working time per worker but the total time worked in the country. (Ref. 070696)
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This analysis made by AEraadet (Arbejderbevægelsens Erhvervsraad) – research institute and think tank which gathers union and the social-democratic party leaders– is based upon the idea that what is important for a country’s production and general well being is not so much the quantity of hours worked every year by every employee, but the total of the hours worked by all the employees.

Danish people would work more than what we think. According to this institute, Denmark is one of the countrie

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