Unemployment fell by 0.6% in April! – Point

The march was a clearing in an already tense: employment center had posted the largest decrease since the crisis, with 60,000 fewer unemployed in France. In late March, there were 3.53 million unemployed in France and 5.76 million including overseas and job seekers engaged in a Pool. Enough to talk about reversing the unemployment curve, but almost enough to evoke a stabilization of unemployment. The April figures are of particular importance is the yo-yo continues, down to sketch looming …

The number of job seekers without activity recorded in April a second consecutive month of decline (- 19 900 – 0.6%), a new series since early 2011, the indicator falling to 3.51 million people in France, said Wednesday the Ministry of Labour

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employment center has also seen a decline over the year (- 22 500 – 0.6% between April 2015 and April 2016), for the first time since 2008 . the indicator is also down 69 400 (- 1.9%) since the beginning of the year

on April alone, unemployment has also declined (. – 0.6%) taking into account overseas, to $ 3.77 million applicants. It declined even more sharply by including job seekers who have worked during the month, for a total of 5.40 million applicants in France (- 1%) and 5.69 million in the whole of France (- 1.1%).

“Rise unusually strong” outputs to default discount

These declines were due “by the dynamism in job creation employees observed in recent months, supported by the measures introduced by the government, “as the Pact of responsibility, the IECC and the new recruitment assistance for SMEs, said the Minister of Labour Myriam El Khomri in a statement.

But Dares, ministry statistics department warns that this decline coincides with an “unusually large increase” outlets for discount default.

At the end of each month , job seekers are required to report their situation to the employment center, under penalty of being written off automatically. In April, 276,700 people came out lists for this reason or 55,700 more than in March.

This statistic event “could be explained, at least in part,” by the “number particularly high “of public holidays in early May, during the refresh period for job seekers, according to Dares

Meanwhile, the office of Myriam El Khomri advance a second explanation. who found a job these job seekers would “not necessarily thought to update their status.”

Decline in long-term unemployment

in April, all age groups enjoyed the decline in unemployment, young people (- 1.0%) as seniors (- 0.3%). But their situations are very different in a year: that of young people is very clear improvement (- 7.6%), when that of their elders continues to deteriorate (+ 5.3%)

. the long-term unemployment has also declined (- 0.7%), but still rising year on year (+ 5.8%). In late April, small activity range, 2.47 million job seekers were registered at employment center for over a year.