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The job market in France reveals a mismatch between supply and demand. There are thus nearly 350,000 unfilled jobs (excluding agriculture) for 3 million unemployed (end of 2023). The first issue is therefore to provide employment to all the unemployed before considering bringing in external labor. This state of affairs is often the result of a mismatch between the work offered and the desired work desired. In construction, catering, personal care, cleaning, jobs are to be filled which hardly meet the aspirations of a population which is reluctant to take on tiring and poorly paid work. Many seasonal jobs in agriculture could not be carried out without bringing in workers from Eastern Europe or Morocco (picking vegetables, picking fruit, etc.). In the first half of 2022, more than 22,000 foreign seasonal workers came to work in France, 75% of whom are Moroccans. Agreements have also been concluded between the hotel and restaurant federation and Tunisia, in order to facilitate the arrival of temporary workers.
Policies that are certainly laudable and understandable regarding the need for certain activities to find labor in order to function, but which may seem strange given the number of unemployed present in France, particularly among people with immigrant backgrounds.
In 2021, in France, the population of foreign origin showed an unemployment rate of 12.3% compared to 7.9% for the national population. In 2017, there were 20.5% unemployed Africans, 16.7% Moroccans and 15.7% Turks (INSEE, 2017). While there are undeniably immigrants who come to France to work and who have a job, many are in France while being unemployed, with rates that far exceed those of nationals. We may therefore find it curious to bring in foreign labor to work when there are already immigrants in France who are unemployed. According to OECD data, 41% of migrants who came to France between 2005 and 2020 did so for family reasons when work only concerned 10.1% of arrivals over the same period. […]
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