The Statistics Department attached to the Ministry of Labor has published the figures counting the number of job seekers in France.
Result: unemployment is down in the country in the second quarter of 2021, mainly for categories A and the youngest.
The number of unemployed (category A) recorded a significant drop of 1.3% in the second quarter in France (excluding Mayotte), or 50,600 registered less, to 3.750 million, according to figures from the Ministry of Labor released Tuesday.
This category only includes job seekers who did not work at all during this last quarter.
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This downward trend is particularly marked among the youngest (-2.1% among those under 25), compared to seniors (-0.3%).
If we only look at the month of June, for the first time since the start of the Covid-19 health crisis, young job seekers are closer to the level of unemployment before the crisis than the other categories of the population. .
Passing below the threshold of six million unemployed
Despite everything, the Statistics Directorate (Dares) has counted around 200,800 more unemployed since the start of the health crisis.
If we take, this time, all job seekers and therefore especially those who have had a very reduced activity in recent months (categories B and C), the drop over the past quarter is 0.5%.
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With 5.984 million unemployed, France falls below the threshold of 6 million unemployed. This figure is generally the most representative of the trend. What is certain is that the wave of bankruptcies and the explosion in the number of job seekers feared at the start of the crisis did not occur thanks to the gigantic aid plan. It remains to be seen what the recovery will give with the new measures put in place due to the soaring of the Delta variant.