Here FR does a much better job than UK at convincing people to be inactive rather than unemployed. Probably all the "pre-retirement" stuff, excluding retirement, UK wins.
From OECD, 55-64 both sexes: unemployment participation employment/population FR 6.3 39.6 37.1 UK 3.1 58.0 56.2
But still FR is not winning on the official unemployment measure.
