Employment: Greater Paris should regain its position as French leader

Despite the crisis and the cessation of tourism - which has mainly impacted the heart of the capital - the metropolis of Greater Paris is staying the course in the storm and remains a driving force in terms of employment.

This is the lesson of the latest study conducted by HelloWork (ex-Regionjob), a digital employment player who analyzed on these online platforms the changes in the dissemination of its offers in the first quarter of 2021.

“If Île-de-France is the region in the strongest decline (-3 points), it is nonetheless one of those which offer the most permanent and fixed-term contracts, taking second place in the ranking, with 16% of the national volume of job offers, just behind the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region ”, underlines David Beaurepaire, the deputy director of the platform which conducted the survey.

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The reason ?

“Its demographic weight (

Editor's note: 12.2 million inhabitants

), the reorganization between research centers, located in the suburbs, and by the fact that companies tend to leave the inner suburbs.

We can cite the example of the Renault Technocentre, located in Guyancourt (Yvelines), ”explains Philippe Crevel, economist and director of the Cercle de l'Épargne.

As many creations in Paris as in the crown

The dynamism of economic poles, such as Paris-Saclay, and the economic attractiveness of the southern Ile-de-France, reinforced by all the works of the Greater Paris South which supply construction companies, contribute to this, according to the study. "The recent establishment of company headquarters around Massy (Essonne) has also made it possible to retain jobs", details David Beaurepaire, for whom the affair is no doubt: "The largest employment pool in France will resume. its natural place of number 1, once all the constraints have been lifted. "

And for good reason: the metropolis of Greater Paris and the metropolis of Lyon (Rhône) together still account for nearly half of the open-ended and fixed-term contracts to be filled in this top 10 of metropolises.

"On the other hand, indicates the survey, which details the number of temporary employment offers, the Lyon metropolis has a growth of 2 points in the offers offered compared to last year at the same period, when Greater Paris shows a fall. of his job offers by 4 points.

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While waiting for the “remount” of Greater Paris, Nantes Métropole (Loire-Atlantique) and the European metropolis of Lille, which respectively occupy 3rd and 5th places, are also showing growth of two points in market share.

Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), strongly impacted by the crisis in the aeronautics sector, fell by one point.

Another indicator, which shows that the Île-de-France still attracts foreign investors: according to a study published in mid-March by the Region and its attractiveness agency Choose Paris region, 10,800 jobs were created there during the year. last year by 336 international direct investments, against 9,700 jobs in 2019. According to this study, the efforts to promote the suburbs have paid off, since jobs have been created almost equally between the capital and the small and large crowns.