The unemployment rate hardly changed in the second quarter of the year.

Compared to the first quarter of 2021, INSEE observed a very slight decrease of -0.1% in this rate, which therefore came to 8.0% of the working population in France (excluding Mayotte).

In figures, this brings the number of unemployed in France to 2.4 million over the period between the end of March 2021 and the end of June 2021, i.e. 16,000 less than the estimate for the first quarter.

Over one year, the unemployment rate, measured according to the standards of the International Labor Office (ILO), is up 0.8 point but is "almost identical (-0.1 point) to its level at the end of 2019, before the health crisis ”, indicates the institute of statistics.

Decreasing among young people, increasing among those over 50

INSEE observes that over this second quarter, the unemployment rate fell for 15-24 year olds (-0.8 point) and 25-49 year olds (-0.2 point) and increased by 0.4 point for 50 years and over. Compared to its pre-crisis level (end of 2019), it is lower for young people (-1.4 point) but equivalent for people of middle age (-0.1 point) and seniors (+0 , 1 point).

With regard to the "halo around unemployment", that is to say unemployed people who want one but who do not meet the other ILO criteria to be considered unemployed, the same stability is observed: this situation concerns 2.0 million people. people, or 4.9% of 15-64 year olds, as in the previous quarter. This share is 0.2 points higher than its pre-crisis level, but well below (-2.1 points) its peak in the second quarter of 2020, which was the main counterpart to a temporary drop and " in trompe-l'œil ”unemployment during the first confinement, according to INSEE. During the first confinement, people were able to switch to inactivity because they could not carry out active job searches under the usual conditions.

The long-term unemployment rate is also almost stable: it concerns 0.7 million unemployed and stands at 2.4% of the working population (-0.1 point over the quarter), after having jumped from 0 , 4 point in the previous quarter;

it is thus 0.2 point above its pre-crisis level (end of 2019).

This virtual stability over the quarter covers marked differences according to age: -0.7 point for 15-24 year olds, -0.2 point for 25-49 year olds and +0.1 point for 50 year olds and more.

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