2023-07-06 13:11:31
Salaried employment increased in four out of five regions in the first quarter, and the unemployment rate fell in most departments, according to an INSEE publication.
While the rise in prices and the uncertain context could undermine business prospects, salaried employment is holding up. This first quarter of 2023, it increased by 1.3% compared to the quarter of the previous year, according to the latest INSEE publication on localized employment and unemployment rate. And some regions are doing better than others.
Among the champions, Île-de-France, Brittany and Reunion recorded an increase of more than 1.8% in salaried employment over one year. Occitanie, the PACA region, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and the Pays de la Loire are also attractive with an increase in salaried employment – more measured – of between 1.3 and 1.8% between the end of March 2022 and end of March 2023.
In detail, 83 departments out of 101 saw an increase in salaried employment. The overseas departments, the Atlantic coast, the Mediterranean coast, Savoie, Haute-Savoie and two departments of Île-de-France have the “additional employment“the most important over a year, specifies the national institute of statistics. “This development is driven by the commercial tertiary sectornotes Yves Jauneau, head of the labor market overview and situation division. This sector includes accommodation and catering activities, shops, transport and real estate.
It is the regions and departments where tertiary activity has the most weight that are therefore the most dynamic in terms of salaried employment. On the industry side, however, employment is increasingweaker“, and is even in decline in the construction sector”for the first time“For several quarters, he adds.
A slowdown in employment?
However, these results should be taken with great caution. At the beginning of the year, “there is still an increase in salaried employment in all regions, as companies recruit“, tempers Yves Jauneau. What’s more, the expert notes a strong mobility of employees who change company, which leads to job creation. This phenomenon of mobility has increased since the health crisis and concerns all sectors and all regions, according to a Dares publication for INSEE.
In 2022, the activity rate has never been so high since 1975, with 73.6% of assets, according to the INSEE figures. However, the institute is still counting on a “slowdown in employment in the coming quarters“says Yves Jauneau. In question, a weaker increase in economic activity, a slowdown in the creation of work-study positions, and a drop in employment activity in construction.
On the side of unemployment
Each quarter, the national unemployment rate is measured by INSEE. But it is difficult to go into detail at the regional or departmental level. As a result, the national institute has established a special indicator: the “localized unemployment rate».
The unemployment rate at the national level stands at 7.1% in the first quarter, with a decrease of 0.3 points less than in the first quarter of 2022. At the regional level, it remains “virtually unchanged in six regions», notes the note from INSEE. It increases only in Reunion. Unemployment remainswell below its level before the health crisis“says Yves Jauneau. It is in Île-de-France, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Guyana and the Pays de la Loire that unemployment has fallen the most.
Disparities, which date from before the crisis, still persist between the regions. Hauts-de-France and Occitanie are the two regions with the highest unemployment rate in mainland France, between 8.1 and 9.1%. Several reasons explain this situation. Occitania is experiencing a “strong job demandin a region with significant demographic dynamics, explains the expert. The Hauts-de-France are, for their part, a predominantly industrial region. Overseas territories are particularly affected with a rate exceeding 9.1%. These territories are also subject to more or less significant changes, because these territories are “smaller with fewer jobs“says Yves Jauneau.
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