Toolbox for Emmanuel Macron (and other putative candidates) in view of the presidential election, the report on the great economic challenges, published at the end of June by the Nobel Prize winner Jean Tirole and the former chief economist of the IMF Olivier Blanchard, multiplies avenues for reform: raising the retirement age, taxing inheritances to fight inequalities, relaunching the carbon tax, etc.
Among the recommendations of this 500-page report, one chapter has gone unnoticed: how to better integrate immigrants into the labor market.
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Economists start from a simple observation: if the employment rate of immigrants in France were higher, the problems of the pension system, by bringing more contributions into the social security funds, would be alleviated.
However, the activity rates observed are particularly low among non-European immigrant women: more than 45%, for example, are unemployed or not looking for a job ...
This limited presence of immigrants in the market
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