High unit labor costs and unemployment rates are responsible, in turn, for reducing the trend rate of economic growth, mainly owing to under-utilized labor, while the combination of lackluster growth and an ever-mounting welfare burden has resulted in chronic budget deficits. The last surplus was in 1974.
反过来，高单位劳动陈本和失业率又压低了经济的趋势增长率（因劳动力利用率不足），而增长不振加上福利支出的不听增加又导致了顽固不化的预算赤字。法国上一次出现预算盈余是在1974年。