Re:Associations Among School Absenteeism, G.I. and Respirato...
by newen on Saturday March 09, 2019 @09:00AM
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You are implying Europe is more developed than America? America has per capita GDP comparable to Europe's top countries. If not what's wrong with comparing your country's labor laws to a similar country's labor laws?
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Re:Associations Among School Absenteeism, G.I. and Respirato...
by ddebernardy on Saturday March 09, 2019 @09:27AM
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Yeah, but that's usually comparing a mean income per capita. Personally I'd be curious to see a comparison of what's left of the median income after factoring in the cost of taxes, education, and health care.
Re:Associations Among School Absenteeism, G.I. and Respirato...
by newen on Saturday March 09, 2019 @11:39AM
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But mean income per capita is what should be compared when talking about social services such as healthcare, etc. If you take a developed country, add a bunch of wealth inequality to it, and then say that you can't compare that country to other developed countries because wealth inequality is part of equalition of being developed, you are just going around in circles.
Re:Associations Among School Absenteeism, G.I. and Respirato...
by DangitBobby on Saturday March 09, 2019 @11:44AM
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Any comparison should take other effects of work culture into account as well, such as how much time per week we can devote to living once you subtract work and commute times.
Re:Associations Among School Absenteeism, G.I. and Respirato...
by umanwizard on Saturday March 09, 2019 @01:00PM
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GDP per capita is not the same thing as development.
Yes, from personal experience France at least is more developed than the US.