SEPTEMBER Unemployment figures still on the rise
27 OCTOBER 2011
Unemployment figures increased +0.9% in September month-on-month to 2.781 million jobless and stuck to the 2.7 million mark for the fifth consecutive month. Including all categories of people seeking work and the French Overseas Departments (DOM TOM), total unemployment increased to 4 441.6 million or +0.7%.
Government measures effective from September 1st and targeted at laid-off workers (98% of net salary paid for one year during job search programs) and youth (vocational training programs) met substantial demand as the number of overall jobless under training programs in Metropole jumped +37.9%
However, equally to July unemployment figures, all age groups and genders recorded a rise in unemployment: male joblessness increased +0.8% to 1. 431 million and female +1.1% 1 349.5 million. Youth unemployment grew +0.6% to 437 800 equally to the intermediate 25-59 age bracket to 1 770.4 million. Seniors (over 50) saw unemployment jump +2.1% to 572 300.
Male youth joblessness climbed +1.3% and was impacted the most by the weak labor market unlike previous months, while female's fell -0.1%. Inversely, males between 25-49 recorded a modest +0.3% jobless rate rise while female unemployment grew +1%. The senior category performed equally to male youth joblessness as each male and female of that age group unemployment rate grew respectively +1.8% and +2.5%.
The end of long term assignments (over six months) led +4.5% new job seekers to register at job centers as such job offers fell -8.4% and temporary occupations (under six months) -1.6% Occasional job offers (under one month) dived -17.3%. On the same month-on-month period, overall vacancies fell -7.1% to 276 100 occupations.
In one year however, overall vacancies rose +4.3% but each long term and temporary employment offers increased at a similar pace +7.9% and +7.7% as economic uncertainties froze the labor market. Occasional job offers on the same period plunged -16.1%.
Consequently, overall unemployment rose +3% and female unemployment jumped +5.4% compared with male +0.9%. Youth unemployment declined -2% while the 25-49 age group jobless rate rose +1.1% and the senior category +14.3%. Male youth performed best with jobless figures in decline -4.1%, while female's edged up +0.3%. Females between 25-49 recorded +3.6% jobless increase while males dipped -1.2%. Among seniors, male joblessness rose +12.4% and female +16.5%. The number of jobless on solidarity income (RSA) rose +6.9%.
In the French West Indies (DOM), and on the same yearly period, unemployment in Martinique rose equally to August figures or +3% and among youth increased over one percentage point to +14.8%. In the island of Reunion, overall joblessness moved down to +7.3% (+8% in August) and youth unemployment +18% (+17.6% last month). In Guadeloupe, youth joblessness edged down +6.1% but rose by one percentage point to +13.5% In French Guiana, overall unemployment shed several points to +6.7% ( +8.7% in August) but youth unemployment mirrored the previous month +15.8% rise.
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