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Originally Posted by nomadking
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IE Meaningless figures. If you produce things with a high value/price, then you appear productive.
Why is Macron trying to increase French working hours?
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How much of "do very well globally" is from owning foreign companies, ie non-French workers?
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Absolutely, it will always depend on how you measure productivity but to brand the figures meaningless is a leap. The figures should be regarded with certain caveats.
There is some more data here -
https://data.oecd.org/lprdty/gdp-per...ndicator-chart with a number of different productivity indicators and each time, France is doing fairly well and certainly better than the UK. Is this because of or despite French labour laws is open to debate. Macron clearly thinks that it is despite, hence the will to go towards a more anglo-saxon approach