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/ 4 August 2004

A French lesson

France’s 35-hour working week is coming under increasingly heavy fire for undermining economic growth and discouraging job creation. The reasoning of the politicians who pushed for the shorter week had a surface appeal — high unemployment will fall if people in jobs work fewer hours. Employers will hire more workers. If only the world worked that way.

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