After having seen the unemployment rate in France fall by more than 2 points during his first five-year term, Emmanuel Macron now sets himself the ambition of flirting with full employment by 2027.
An ambitious goal that remains vague as this concept is debated.
If this concept appears in a recurring way in the public debate, nobody can really say where it is located on the scale of unemployment.
And this, for a simple reason: it is the result of a particular state of the labor market and not of the crossing of a well-established threshold.
At Matignon, last March, we also admitted that it was complicated to translate this desire into an exact figure.
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In concrete terms, we can speak of full employment
as soon as cyclical unemployment - linked to economic hazards - and structural unemployment - which represents the mismatch between the qualifications of individuals and jobs - are completely dissipated.
A situation that does not imply the total disappearance...
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