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Re:Parents in poorer countries devote more time to their kid... by oblio on Friday April 20, 2018 @05:07AM (#16883282)
> National income is correlated with percent of population in workforce. Poorer countries are correlated with lower levels of total employment.

How did you draw that conclusion? Do you have any data for this?

Intuitively I'd expect poor people to work more since they still need a baseline amount of money (food, rent, etc.) and it takes them longer to get it.

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Re:Parents in poorer countries devote more time to their kid... by meric on Friday April 20, 2018 @03:08PM (#16887646)
Two parents working have more income counted in GDP than one parent. Higher GDP is thus correlated with more parents working. More parents working means less parent hours available. In the table the bottom countries have highest number of parents working and the top countries, lowest.
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