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Does the data presented here distinguish between full-time and part-time employment? Or hourly and salaried employment? I wasn’t able to find any information other than “hours worked per person employed”, which seems a rather vague statistic to be used to support any claim.

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Good question -- I believe the source is here: https://www.bruegel.org/analysis/european-unions-remarkable-...

Reading between the lines, I do not think it distinguishes between full-time and part-time employment: "In Europe, employees tend to work fewer hours than in the US, partly because there are more paid holidays, the typical working week of a full-time employee is shorter and there is a larger share of part-time workers than in the US."

A lot of people totally work 4 days a week here and it's considered full time contract. Standard language in a contract at the company I'm working for is 32 hours per week, so everybody doing full 5 days a week is having a coefficient applied already.

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