Source:DARES

28 DECEMBER 2011

Unemployment figures deteriorated for the seventh consecutive month in Metropole and increased +1.1% in November to 2.844 million jobless or 9.3% of the total working population, stuck to the record high 2.8 million mark for the second uninterrupted month, and close to the historical high 2.849 million reached in November 1999.

In November, including the French Overseas Departments (DOM) the number of jobless swell to 3 080 5 million or +0.9% while total unemployment (including all categories of people seeking work) increased to 4 510.5 million or +1.1%. 

On the same period and in Metropole, although full-time job vacancies (over six months) surged +7.2% and temporary jobs (between one and six months) +8.9%, registrations at job centers due to the end of short term contracts jumped +6.6% and due to the end of temporary employment +9.5% as economic confidence melted over the Euro area's sustainability. Occasional job offers (under one month) dropped -4.2%. In addition, registrations due to lay-offs (including job training schemes) climbed +11.1% and other lay-offs +11.3% while registrations due to training programs which had jumped +37.9% in September dipped for the second consecutive month in November and fell -5.7%.

Youth and seniors were impacted the most by a rise in joblessness, respectively +2.2% to 449 900 and +1.5% to 594 300 but the 25-49 age group unemployment rate climbed +0.7% to over 1.8 million, the largest in numbers and still  increasing. Per gender, overall male unemployment grew +1.1% to 1 463.5 million and female +1% to 1 381.3 million.
The number of job seekers on welfare benefits (RSA) moved down one notch to +2.6% (from +3% in October).

In one year, the same category of recipients increased +16.5% while overall unemployment climbed +5.2%. Female unemployment jumped +7% and male +3.5%. The under 25 unemployment rate grew +2.3%, and the intermediate  25-49 age group +2.9%. The senior's jobless rate soared +15.4% with female's up +17.5% and male's +13.6%. Female youth unemployment also rose faster, +3.9%, compared with young male's +0.9%. The 25-49 male joblessness grew +1.1% on the same yearly period and female's +4.8%.

In the Paris Ile de France region, unemployment climbed half a percentage point to +3.5% compared with October and youth joblessness moved up to -1.4% (from -4.5%). Unlike October when six departments, including Ile de France, had recorded a decline in youth unemployment, the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region remained the only follower although down by half to -1.7%.  

In the French West Indies, unemployment moved down to +5.4% (compared with +6.8% in October) as in the island of Reunion, the number of jobless was +4.9% (against +6.8%), in Martinique +5.3% (compared with 7.3%)  in Guadeloupe +6.5% (against the previous +8%) and in French Guiana +5.6% (+7% in October).  Youth unemployment therefore moved down by two percentage points to +3.2%, halved in Guadeloupe to +5.7%, in French Guiana +3.7% a one percentage point decline and equally in Martinique to +4%  and in the island of Reunion or +2%.