Are the French actually more efficient workers?

[Magiver]

@Malodorous

I don’t see how low GDP per capita translates to a low average salary.

I was waiting for that. You’re right, it’s not directly related and I don’t have anything to tie it to a standard of living or wages.

@Malodorous

I’m pretty sure that GDP per captia includes non-working people in the “per capita” part. So France’s would be lower even if the average incme was the same there as in the US, since they have a much higher precentage of their population unemployed.

Of course you might be right and French people may lower average incomes (they certainly have a higher tax burden in anycase), but I don’t think comparing GDP per capita demonstrates this (my google-fu is unequal to the task of finding average income stats in the two countries, perhaps someone else can find some numbers).

My bad, I think its just across the G7 countries, not the world at large.

Didn’t mean to pick on the French but their attempt to solve unemployment with social engineering has not been successful. Not sure how it relates to wages or productivity.