Accompanying job seekers: to end the French backwardness.

Summary For thirty years, unemployment has never fallen below 8% on a sustained basis. This is undoubtedly a sign that our employment policies need to be reformed. Support measures are essential to reduce unemployment. Yet France is lagging behind. Its policies are tied up in an administrative millefeuille in which the State, the regions, the departments and the municipalities intervene, mobilizing both private and public actors, according to a range of poorly coordinated measures that are still too rarely evaluated. However, the virtues and limitations of these systems are now well understood. There is a vast scientific literature on the subject. It allows us to draw the outlines of policies that work and to identify the audiences for whom it is desirable to mobilize them. It is these results that this book wishes to present.