An hour of labour in Italy costs euro19, and in France euro30: the equivalent in Poland is euro2.
The more government forces everyone to save, the less additional consumption a worker will be able to enjoy from each additional hour of labour.
Yet it may still not be good enough: the best mini-mill firms can make a ton of steel using less than one man-hour of labour.
We thus get less per hour of labour this way.
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After falling in the first half of the year, American labour productivity (output per hour) was 2.3% higher in the third quarter of 2011 than in the same period a year earlier.
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"The largest security company in the world, providing a contract to their biggest UK client, turned years of carefully-laid preparations into an 11th-hour fiasco, " Labour MP Mr Vaz said.
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On Wednesday he told the London Evening Standard that he found Mr Miliband "quite impressive, physically and intellectually" during an hour long meeting at the Labour leader's offices.
France's 35-hour week, which restricts the supply of labour, lowers this limit.
Labour productivity continues to grow, with non-farm output per hour increasing by 1.1% at an annual rate in the second quarter.
As labour minister from 1997-2000, she implemented the 35-hour week - known in France as the "Aubry Law" - and universal sickness cover, as well as overseeing an important youth employment scheme.
Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon hit back saying she spent "every waking hour" striving to protect the NHS and said had Labour been in power the NHS budget would have been smaller than it now was.
The party would still find itself well to the left of Tony Blair's Labour Party, though: for instance, Mr Hollande defends the 35-hour week.
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Despite the robust growth of the French economy, few within the government expect the 35-hour week to perform job-creating miracles for the tenth of the labour force still without work.
We were on our way home from Labour's conference in Llandudno and let's face it, it wasn't my finest hour as a driver.
"For a kid who comes out and gets a job in the high school labour market with a college degree, they're going to get paid 10 or 11 bucks an hour, " says Drexel University economist Prof Paul Harrington.
The rural theme is maintained at the end of the day (at 10pm) when Labour MP Chris Williamson, a long standing activist in the League Against Cruel Sports, has a half-hour adjournment debate on policing violence at hunts.
In France, the introduction of a 35-hour working week means that more workers are needed to produce the same economic output, which is aggravating labour shortages.
"We didn't do that for Ted Heath or (former Labour prime minister) Jim Callaghan - we could have dealt with it quite easily and respectfully next week in an hour set aside for it, " he said.
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