On average over 2020, 68.3% of young people who left initial training one to four years ago - between 2016 and 2019 - were in employment.
This is 1 point less than in 2019, while the employment rate has remained almost stable for people who have completed their studies for a longer time, notes the National Institute of Statistics.
The decline in the employment rate of young people leaving school was particularly marked in the second quarter of 2020, under the effect of the first confinement.
More often on a limited-term contract (CDD, interim), young people leaving were in fact more exposed, continues the institute.
This decline in the employment rate has resulted in an increase in the proportion of young people leaving school who are unemployed or in the "halo" around unemployment (+1.6 point).
In total, in 2020, 21.2% of those leaving initial training are unemployed or in their halo, the study indicates.
The decline in the employment rate when entering working life affected young men as well as young women, even if it was a little more pronounced for the former (-1.3 points for men, against -0.8 for women) and the entire scale of diplomas has been impacted.
The most qualified remain those who have the most access to employment: in 2020, on leaving their studies, 81.9% of graduates of long-term higher education are in employment, against 60.8% of holders of a baccalaureate level and 27 , 6% of young people with little or no qualifications.
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