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Germany fact of the day

On average, a working-age German works about 2 hours and 35 minutes per calendar day.

That is from Olaf Gersemann's excellent Cowboy Capitalism: European Myths, American Realities.  Here is a Cato Institute summary of the book.

Posted by Tyler Cowen on December 7, 2004 at 06:34 PM in Data Source | Permalink

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