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To: neolib who wrote (51528)	3/3/2008 9:11:54 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 543166

How believable are average hours per worker? Is it for all workers, or does it excluded part time? I would guess all workers, but I don't know because I didn't (and probably won't) bother to look up the stat, for the reasons I already gave. If fewer hours mean that someone can support himself at an acceptable level while working less hours than its a good thing, if it means someone is forced in to a lifestyle he doesn't want because he can't find a full time job, than that's a bad thing. (And its not even that simple, you can get a bit of each, where someone who was working a lot of overtime cuts back to a 30 hour part time job so he can have more of his own time, but would rather work 40 hours than 30 or 50+) I don't know if its possible to have stats that really reflect the reality here in very precise terms. What we can see though is that over time people have more (and generally better) things, larger houses (despite smaller average family sizes), etc. This doesn't reflect just the top 1% or to 20% or anything like that (even if some percentage at the bottom might not be participating in all this improvement, or at least not at the same rate)

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