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Re:Why Germans Work Fewer Hours but Produce More: A Study in... by adventured on Saturday November 15, 2014 @12:59PM (#8612189)
This is incorrect.

The US is the world's second largest manufacturing economy, and just until recently was in front of China.

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Re:Why Germans Work Fewer Hours but Produce More: A Study in... by alayne on Saturday November 15, 2014 @01:12PM (#8612221)
You can't compare by total output, you need to normalize by population or as percentage of GDP. It's only about 13% of the U.S. GDP and 23% of Germany's GDP according to the World Bank for 2011.
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Re:Why Germans Work Fewer Hours but Produce More: A Study in... by adventured on Sunday November 16, 2014 @04:31AM (#8613805)
I think you can compare by total output. How about we normalize based on manufacturing output vs population and claim China isn't a manufacturing economy either.

If you have a manufacturing sector roughly the size of the entire economy of France or Russia or Brazil, and that doesn't qualify as having a manufacturing economy, then no country qualifies as such.

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Re:Why Germans Work Fewer Hours but Produce More: A Study in... by 001sky on Saturday November 15, 2014 @01:10PM (#8612219)
Proportions?
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