The Talented and Hard-Working Have Nothing to Fear

The talented and hardworking have nothing to fear," according to Dominic Raab, a Conservative MP in the United Kingdom. In a recent interview with the BBC's HARDtalk, he defends his book in co-authorship with four other conservative MPs in which he describes a more right-wing course for the Conservative party in the United Kingdom.

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A snatched fragment of the book said that "the British are among the worst idlers in the world, [they] work between the lowest hours, retire early and have low productivity, while Indian children aspire to be doctors or businessmen. , the British are more interested in football and pop music. "

The five parliamentarians would have made a service to all by first checking their data. In fact, the British have one of the longest working hours in Europe and they retire later than people in most other European countries.

In addition, they clearly adhere to the established dogma that longer working days, subsequent retirement and less vacation will take us all out of the financial crisis. A quick look at the figures, however, shows a different image.

Longer work hours: Austria, Greece and the United Kingdom.

The data compiled in 2011 by the Office of National Statistics in the United Kingdom and Eurostat show that the United Kingdom ranks third in terms of longer working hours for full-time jobs among all EU member states. Many people will also be surprised to find Greece in second place. Germany only ranks eighth after Portugal and Cyprus.

At the bottom of the list and far behind the EU average, we can find countries such as Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, Sweden and the Netherlands.

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Higher productivity: Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Belgium.

A different image emerges when you look at productivity per hour worked.

The United Kingdom slides to 13th place and Greece approaches 19th at the bottom end of the list. Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium and France occupy the first 4 places and Germany ranks 6th.

The minimum retirement age: Austria, France and Luxembourg

Similarly, when looking at the data collected on effective retirement age in OECD countries (compiled by the OECD and The Economist), Japan and Sweden had the highest effective retirement age in 2010, while Austria, France, Luxembourg and Belgium. Greece and Portugal had a significantly higher retirement age than Germany. The United Kingdom is far from being the country with the earliest effective retirement age.

So, force people to work long hours to old age in jobs that anaesthetize the exit from the crisis? Should we return to the conditions of slave labour, as in India and in other countries, where Dominic Raab seems to have such esteem?

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