In a speech on April 15, François Bayrou underlined the lack of fiscal resources of France, due to insufficient national production and thus rekindled a polarized debate around “Delivery of France at work“. Behind this formula arise two crucial questions: how to explain the weakness of French GDP per capita compared to the United States and its European partners? Is it attributable to an insufficient employment of employment? Over long time, advanced countries have increased their wealth, while reducing working time, thanks to the development of the overall productivity of the factors.
Time productivity has been multiplied by 16 on average in European countries since 1914. However, France and the European Union have experienced a break in the progression of their productivity for over ten years, a break identified as a component of their economic dropping out in the Letta and Draghi reports of 2024. United Kingdom, and 300 hours less than in the United States in 2024. The explanation of the slightest volume of hours worked in France lies in the weakness of our employment rate, particularly at the two ends of working life, and not to a volume of work too low provided … by those who work.
