The number of category A job seekers fell 5.8% (-203,100) this quarter and 10.0% over one year.
The number of people with short reduced activity (category B) fell by 0.1% compared to the previous quarter and over the same period that of people with long reduced activity (category C) increased by 6.5%.
In total, the number of job seekers in categories A, B, C fell by 1.9% over this quarter (-110,900) and by 3.6% over one year.
Thus, the number of people registered with Pôle emploi and required to look for a job (categories A, B, C) therefore stands at 5,577,800. Among them, 3,307,400 people are unemployed (category A) and 2,270. 400 exercise a reduced activity (categories B, C).
More generally, in France (including the overseas departments-regions, excluding Mayotte), the number of job seekers stands at 3,544,100 for category A. quarter (-9.7% over one year).
For categories A, B and C, this number stands at 5,871,200. It fell by 1.9% over this quarter and by 3.6% over one year.
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These figures follow a 1.4% drop in unemployment in the second quarter.
Metropolitan France then had more than 3.5 million job seekers in category A (without any activity).
5,688,700 people in all were registered with Pôle Emploi in the second quarter, a drop of 0.5%.
Under the effect of Covid-19, 2020 will have been marked by an increase in the number of unemployed by 7.5%, with 265,400 additional registrants in the 4th quarter of 2020 compared to the 4th quarter of 2019. The figures of the second quarter confirm other favorable indicators published recently.
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The number of hiring declarations of more than one month (excluding temporary work) notably increased by 16.9% in the second quarter, reaching a “historic peak” with more than 2.2 million hires, according to Urssaf National Fund (formerly Acoss).