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A growing population need not supply more work. In this 1968 article, Gerhard Tintner and Yves Aureille examine that tension in France’s postwar demographic revival, separating the number of workers from the hours they contribute. Their accounting method distinguishes employment growth from changes in sectoral composition and working time: movement out of agriculture, with its longer hours, can reduce total labour input even as employment expands. They propose a quality-adjusted measure of labour services, while acknowledging that available French statistics permit only a simpler calculation of hours. Their conditional projection of declining labour input in 1965–70 gives the methodological problem a concrete edge. Readers can discover why schooling, retirement, holidays, and occupational shifts complicate any direct inference from demographic growth to labour supply.