France: who are these 963,000 young people without study, employment or training in 2018?

Text by: Pauline Gleize

In France, nearly one million young people aged 16 to 25 were neither in study, nor in employment, nor in training in 2018, according to the definition of Eurostat. This is the result of a study by Dares, the official body responsible inter alia for counting the number of unemployed. In total, almost 13% of this age group were in this situation, down slightly from 2015. What is the profile of these young people?

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Let's start with the positive note: not everyone is permanently in this situation . A third of the young people “NEET”, the English acronym meaning neither in studies, neither in employment, nor in training, have been for less than three months. But half of these 963,000 “NEETs” have faced it for at least a year. And in general, the least qualified people are over-represented.

So where do they live? Where do they come from ? They are generally less numerous in rural communes and more represented in agglomerations of 20,000 to 200,000 inhabitants.

Origins also have an influence. Young people born in France are less likely to find themselves in this category than their peers born abroad. 20% of those whose parents were not born French fall into this category against less than 12% if the father and mother are.

Also determining: the family environment. A young person with at least one parent who is unemployed is almost 5 times more likely to be a "NEET" than a managerial child. In short, the social elevator remains broken.

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