For several decades, successive governments have been pursuing proactive policies in an attempt to reduce discrimination in hiring on the labor market.
A subject on which France appears to be a bad student.
In 2020, the Defender of Rights collected 5,196 referrals for discrimination.
A figure which obviously does not reflect the full extent of the problem, insofar as, according to the authority, 80% of people facing such a situation have not taken steps to assert their rights.
If this discrimination represents a “certain”
social and economic cost
, it remains
“difficult to assess”
, according to a Treasury study published at the end of November.
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At the macroeconomic level, eradicating these differences in treatment would yield an undeniable gain.
For example, the elimination of inequalities in pay levels between the different discriminated populations would generate a 3.6% increase in long-term GDP, according to estimates ...
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