Re:Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes
by jon-wood on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @11:18AM
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They choose not to, or there's no full time work for them to take so they work part time instead?
It may be that they make the choice (I admit to not having read the paper), but lets not jump to that assumption just because they're not in full time work.
Re:Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes
by yummyfajitas on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @12:49PM
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They choose not to, or there's no full time work for them to take so they work part time instead?
The answer is in the report I linked to, which measures involuntary part time employment in addition to labor force participation.
As for people at the bottom, they typically do choose free time over money. About 90% of those classified by the government as poor choose not to work full time, for example.
http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2010.pdf