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30
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Français
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Documents
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1984
Description
This article attempts to explain why and how the low progression of unemployment between mid 1982 and the last months of 1983 was made possible. We shall therefore examine the different devices installed by the government from 1981 through 1983 to fight unemployment, and we shall propose an evaluation of their impact on unemployment changes. According to our estimates, the body of measures enables to slow down the average annual rise of registered work applicants by 150 000 persons in 1981, 260 000 in 1982 and 275 000 in 1983. The « active » employment policy — creation of public employments, reduction of the work period, aid to the creation of employments and macro-economic policy — represented 50 % of would be unemployed workers in 1981, 72 % in 1982 but only 37 % in 1983. The training policy and the devices of anticipated cessation of activity — income guarantees, solidarity contracts — enabled to slow down the rise of unemployment by about 60 000 persons a year in 1981-1982 and 125 000 in 1983, or respectively 44 %, 24 % and 46 % of the total would be unemployed workers. The operations lead by the National Employment Agency (ANPE) on long term unemployed workers enabled to avoid 15 000 unemployed workers in 1982 and 45 000 in 1983. Even if these evaluations remain simple orders of magnitude, they do show that the devises used to fight unemployment have had an important impact. Nonetheless, they have now attained their maximum effect, and it may be much less gratifying on the unemployment front, unless all or a part of the measures that were undertaken over the period studied here are renewed and amplified, in particular the reduction of the work period (including the development of flexible hours).
28 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.
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Publié le
01 janvier 1984
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Langue
Français
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Poids de l'ouvrage
2 Mo