CARPE DIEM
Professor Mark J. Perry's Blog for Economics and Finance
Friday, August 31, 2007
About Me
- Name: Mark J. Perry
- Location: Washington, D.C., United States
Dr. Mark J. Perry is a professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan. Perry holds two graduate degrees in economics (M.A. and Ph.D.) from George Mason University near Washington, D.C. In addition, he holds an MBA degree in finance from the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. In addition to a faculty appointment at the University of Michigan-Flint, Perry is also a visiting scholar at The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
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At least for France vs. the UK, this table is misleading. All of the UK holidays are either on a Monday or if they fall on the weekend and extra day is given in compensation. This means that the Brits always get exactly 8 holidays. In France, most of the holidays are not on specific days of the week and if the holiday falls on the weekend the holiday is "lost". Off the top of my head, I think there are three French holidays that fall on specific days (Easter Friday and a couple of religious holidays that fall on Thursday) so an average French year has 3 + 9 * 5/7 holidays which comes out at about 9.5.
I wonder how many of the other entries have similar problems.
India has 10 public holidays too. I don't know why it is not listed here...
Yes, I agree India should take the cake in this. Although most interesting and hilarious public holidays are of Uzbekistan.
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