<story><title>Why Germans Work Fewer Hours but Produce More: A Study in Culture</title><url>http://knote.com/2014/11/10/why-germans-work-fewer-hours-but-produce-more-a-study-in-culture/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spindritf</author><text>Do they actually produce more? It seems like they produce almost 15% less per hour worked than Americans for example.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29_per_hour_worked&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PP...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And while the stats here are collated, it&amp;#x27;s not nearly as worthless a measure as nominal GDP of the whole country.&lt;p&gt;In Europe (according to Eurostat so possibly using comparable methodology), they&amp;#x27;re behind France.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/table.do?tab=table&amp;amp;init=1&amp;amp;language=en&amp;amp;pcode=tsdec310&amp;amp;plugin=0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu&amp;#x2F;tgm&amp;#x2F;table.do?tab=table&amp;amp;init...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pedrocr</author><text>You&amp;#x27;d probably need to have a per-industry dataset to make a robust conclusion. The two countries above the US are Norway and Luxembourg that are probably as high as that because of oil and financial services respectively being a larger part of their economy.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why Germans Work Fewer Hours but Produce More: A Study in Culture</title><url>http://knote.com/2014/11/10/why-germans-work-fewer-hours-but-produce-more-a-study-in-culture/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spindritf</author><text>Do they actually produce more? It seems like they produce almost 15% less per hour worked than Americans for example.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29_per_hour_worked&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PP...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And while the stats here are collated, it&amp;#x27;s not nearly as worthless a measure as nominal GDP of the whole country.&lt;p&gt;In Europe (according to Eurostat so possibly using comparable methodology), they&amp;#x27;re behind France.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/table.do?tab=table&amp;amp;init=1&amp;amp;language=en&amp;amp;pcode=tsdec310&amp;amp;plugin=0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu&amp;#x2F;tgm&amp;#x2F;table.do?tab=table&amp;amp;init...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tormeh</author><text>The us is a service economy, while germany is a manufacturing one. It&amp;#x27;s a bit hard to compare. As for the French with their short work weeks, it makes sense that they&amp;#x27;re very efficient.</text></comment>