Unemployment.

Summary Since the second half of the 1970s, unemployment has been at the heart of French economic and social news, punctuated by the periodic publication of the number of jobseekers, each increase or decrease of which is commented on. It has become the obsession of all governments, which navigate between a declared voluntarism and a misguided fatalism. The crisis that began in 2008 has resulted in a new aggravation. However, mass unemployment is not inevitable: France has experienced periods of significant decline in the number of unemployed since the second half of the 1990s and, when we look at other industrialized countries, including in Europe, some have very low unemployment rates, sometimes below 5%. How can we understand the controversy surrounding "unemployment figures", which resurface periodically? What are the factors behind unemployment and why does it persist? Why are some countries much more successful in containing it than others? What are the policies to reduce it? The facts, the theories, the policies: this book is a unique synthesis.