On average over the year 2020, 68.3% of young people who left initial training one to four years ago – between 2016 and 2019 – were working.
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A health crisis, but also a social one. Young people out of school have had more difficulty accessing a job in 2020 due to the Covid-19 crisis, confirms an INSEE study published Thursday, January 6.
On average over the year 2020, 68.3% of young people who left initial training one to four years ago – between 2016 and 2019 – were working. This is 1 point less than in 2019, while the employment rate has remained almost stable for people who have completed their studies for a longer time, notes the National Institute of Statistics.
The decline in the employment rate of young people leaving school was particularly marked in the second quarter of 2020, under the effect of the first confinement. More often on a limited-term contract (CDD, interim), young people leaving were in fact more exposed, continues the institute.
The decline in the employment rate when entering working life affected young men as well as young women, even if it was a little more pronounced for the former (-1.3 points for men, against -0.8 for women) and the entire scale of diplomas has been affected.
The most qualified remain those who have the most access to employment: in 2020, on leaving studies, 81.9% of long-term higher education graduates work, against 60.8% of those with a baccalaureate level and 27.6% % of young people with little or no qualifications.