It is a priority target of the Philippe government which, like its predecessors, announced that it wanted to put an end to mass unemployment among young people. Known by the acronym "Neet" (for Not in Education, Employement or Training), people who are neither employed, neither studying nor training form a fragile population very exposed to dropping out.
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Difficult to grasp as a whole, this category cuts across very diverse situations, often complicated, but sometimes also less dramatic than it seems. Two recently published studies make it possible to make a rather fine X-ray of their evolution and composition.
A 6% drop in three years
The number of "Neet" varies from simple to double, depending on the census method used. In 2017, the OECD estimated that the phenomenon affected in 2015 in France 1.7 million young people aged 15 to 29 years. Two years later, it inflated its estimate to nearly 3 million people by expanding to the population aged 29 to 34. To get
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