[lbo-talk] Workers Are on the Job More Hours over the Courseofthe Year

[tfast]

The BLS uses 16 and over, as did I. And I think for the post WWII on, this
is pretty fair assumption.
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Travis W Fast


> On 5/14/07, tfast <tfast at yorku.ca> wrote:
> > That should have read: more members of the working class work, but
because
> > of declining hours the total amount that the working class works is the
> > same.
>  > Again the empirics are:
>  >
>  > 1964.......1.00
>  > 1970.......1.003
>  > 1985.......0.982
>  > 1990.......1.013
>  > 2000.......1.037
>  > 2006.......0.998
>
> Tfast. If you really want to do the empirics, what percent of the
> population was of working age each time. That is you have exclude
> people too young or too old to work, because that might make a
> difference, and recalculate your indexes based on percent of working
> class of working age working.
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