Towards a mobility society: Youth, employment and housing.

Summary In France, despite the various public actions undertaken, the level of youth unemployment has continuously increased since the 1970s. Is this inevitable? Have we identified the real obstacles to entering the labor market? While it has been proven that living in a region rich in qualified jobs systematically increases the chances of returning to work, we can be surprised by the very low mobility of young people in France. Why don't they move to better economic environments? This book shows that the phenomenon is not so much due to personal or family choices as to the existence of public policies that impede mobility. Housing and subsidized employment policies, in particular, tend to lock young people into what might be called immobility traps. The authors propose five public policy measures that would increase the mobility of young people and thus improve their integration into the labor market.