On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 09:30 -0800, Sandwichman wrote: > I will > recommend Anders Hayden's article in Politics and Society, "France's > 35-Hour Week: Attack on Business? Win-Win Reform? Or Betrayal of > Disadvantaged Workers?" (Vol. 34, No. 4, 503-542 (2006))
Thanks for the reference, for those interested it is available for free on Michel Husson web site (together with piles of other 35 hours stuff hence my question): http://hussonet.free.fr/35h.htm I'm still surprised by the constant reference to unemployment as measure in progressive economics papers including this one, even the recent NBER release about the current recession date mentions it prefers to use employment rate: http://wwwdev.nber.org/dec2008.html """Q: What about the unemployment rate? A: Unemployment is generally a lagging indicator, particularly after the trough in economic activity determined by the NBER. For instance, the unemployment rate peaked 15 months after the NBER trough month in the 1990-91 recession and 19 months after the NBER trough month in the 2001 recession. The unemployment rate (which the committee does not use) tends to lag behind employment (which the committee does use) on account of variations in labor-force participation.""" Laurent _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
