unemployment has reached 10%

According to figures published yesterday by the Insee, within the meaning of the ILO, including DOM, unemployment has reached 10% in the fourth quarter of 2009 compared with 8.2% a year earlier. A back to back ten years.


Ten days of the first round of regional elections, the Government did not need it. The Insee yesterday came a little more heated table of employment situation last year. Monthly statistics of employment pole gave the feeling of a slow degradation at the end of the year. But unemployment within the meaning of the ILO, he, again strongly progressed to the fourth quarter, with its increase over one year to 1.8 point announced the Statistical Institute. He ultimately returned to its 1999 level. In metropolis, the rate is mounted averaged 9.6% in the fourth quarter of 2009, more than 2.7 million people, an increase of 0.5 points versus the third quarter. If it incorporates the overseas departments, the unemployment rate has reached threshold symbolic of 10%, rising here yet 0.5 points versus the previous quarter. The news is even worse that, in his last note of economy, mid-December, the Insee provided that France franchirait this bar 10% in June.

It takes place after a stabilisation of unemployment in the third quarter confirmed yesterday by the Insee. A stabilisation that the Government had put in connection with its measures on employment and the map collection.