What constitutes a healthy balance between work and life?

The OECD settled on three distinctions:

1 - The share of the labor force that works very long hours (more than 50 hours a week)

2 - Time spent on "leisure and personal care" (defined in contrast to paid or unpaid work as spending time with friends, going to the movies, pursuing hobbies, sleeping, eating, etc.)

3 - Employment rates for women who have children.

Denmark was named the best country for work-life balance in a 2011 report from the OECD.

Perhaps the most surprising statistics in the survey concerned some stats on Germany. Europe's financial juggernaut recently set yet another record for low unemployment rates, but its family-work dynamic is one of Europe's most poorly balanced.

Only three developed countries have fewer babies per woman than Germany. The average first-time mother is as old as any country in the OECD (30), and the career costs of having a child are sky-high:

German mothers with adult children have, on average, earned less than half of the total working-life earnings of otherwise similar female employees.

Germany is, also, the only OECD country where the tax/benefit system does not favour second earners in families with children.

The GD's ranking explained (source The Atlantic)
16 :: Luxembourg