The EU has outperformed the US on per-capita output growth; in terms of output per hour worked, some EU countries are as productive as the US

The article chooses to take a metric that you usually do not see much: GDP per employee and per hours worked, at purchasing power standards

  • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    Oh yeah, definitely. I had a Romanian colleague who moved to Western Europe to give it a try. He went back to Romania after a few months, and when he explained me the way he was living there, I couldn’t but understand.

    • Justas🇱🇹English
      31·
      10 months ago

      Yep. Some people go to western countries, work a few years and save everything they can to make the initial mortgage payment back home. Western people don’t have that option.