2023-12-06 17:45:01
While the employment situation has deteriorated a little in recent months, the French are showing a little more empathy for job seekers according to a study.
The French have the feeling that the employment situation is no longer improving, which leads them to have a little more empathy towards job seekers, according to a Unédic* barometer published on Wednesday.
The survey carried out by Elabe shows that only 14% of those questioned believe that the employment situation is improving (-2 points compared to 2022), while this feeling had been increasing since July 2020. They are 51% to estimate that the employment situation is deteriorating and 35% to say that it remains the same.
Employed workers are therefore a little more afraid of being unemployed in the next two years (24%, +2 points) and job seekers are less confident in the possibility of finding a job in the next three months (37 %, -3 points), according to this fifth edition of the “barometer of the perception of unemployment and employment” since March 2020.
According to the authors of the study, “there is an almost perfect correlation between the capacity for empathy of society and even more of those in employment towards job seekers and the employment situation”.
A “slightly more benevolent” look
In a context of perceived “tension” on the employment situation, while at the time of the survey the unemployment rate had risen to 7.2%, gaining 0.1 point in the second quarter (before moving to 7.4% in the third), the barometer therefore shows a “slightly more benevolent view towards job seekers”, they explained during a press point.
Suspicion of job seekers remains present, but they are less perceived as “beneficiaries” (39%, -3 pts). A majority of French people (62%) believe, however, that if the unemployed have difficulty finding work, it is because they do not make concessions in their job search.
As for job seekers, 35% say that they face criticism, for example feeling disrespected or perceived as lazy.
The survey also shows that attachment to the French model of unemployment insurance remains in the majority, but is deteriorating in public opinion (57%, -2 pts). Among employed workers, the decline is 13 points since March 2020, while it is generally stable among job seekers. A form of paradox when 93% of French people are convinced that everyone can experience a period of unemployment.
*Survey carried out on the internet from August 29 to September 25 with a representative sample of some 4,500 people (including 1,500 job seekers), using the quota method.
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