i want to say australia, the uk and japan are the top three, tnetatively in that order, but you could probably fit klanada in there instead.
i want to say australia, the uk and japan are the top three, tnetatively in that order, but you could probably fit klanada in there instead.
Yeah that is a factor. That said, it's also probably relevant to consider that salaries and cost of living are such that a large portion of the population can work part time and still have the family budget balance.
The other relevant thing to consider is that the stat might also be affected by a higher proportion of elderly people and students doing part time work. However, it's not really clear how much any of these factors skews the data and I wish I had access to a proper study that controlled for these things.
I saw some papers, not sure if I can share them so feel free not to believe me. Elderly people aren't doing part time work in Japan by and large. Mosf women are housewives from older generations, and men thay haven't retired or died are still working full time. A family budget only works out if two young adults without kids or parent to care for both work part time, someone needs to work full time for it to work. Japan is still set up around one housewife and one breadwinner. By the time a lot of men are stable enough to look for wives and have stopped being picky, they and the woman feel to old to have kids, driving up the population crisis.
Yeah that seems about right. I guess my point was that the OECD stats are derived by dividing up all hours worked by number of workers. That means that it could be skewed by there being more part time workers by percentage of population than other countries. If that's not the case, then barring something like failure in data gathering methodology, Japanese working times aren't quite the unmitigated hellscape most people think they are.