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Fascinating employment and unemployment numbers

by Jerome a Paris
Sat Feb 3rd, 2007 at 09:08:33 AM EST

From Le Monde Thursday:

top left: unemployment rate
bottom left: employment rate
right: number of jobs created since 1994

Some tidbits:

not only has France created more jobs over the past 12 years than the UK, but so has Italy, the supposedly sick man of Europe!
France has lowered its unemployment rate by 3 points in that period, the exact same as the UK. Again, Italy has done better;
Spain is the undisputed locomotive of Europe, thanks to a strongly growing participation rate (presumably women coming on the job market massively?), while Germany has been the clear laggard.

These numbers would need to be examined in view of demographic evolutions, but they certainly do not confirm the image of the eurozone (outside possibly of Germany) as a stagnant job market.

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Fascinating employment and unemployment numbers | 14 comments (14 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

employment and unemployment number (none / 0)

love those charts!!

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia

by whataboutbob on Thu Feb 1st, 2007 at 11:19:31 AM EST

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Does the Sarkozy campaign acknowledge these trends?

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Thu Feb 1st, 2007 at 11:30:02 AM EST

Re: Fascinating employment and unemployment number (none / 0)

Worldwide view:

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/2007/2.htm

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/strat/stratprod.htm

I've not been able to find the document Le Monde refers to.

Any idea?

by Laurent GUERBY on Thu Feb 1st, 2007 at 02:29:28 PM EST

Eurostat (none / 0)

Employment statistics
Press releas on most recent unemployment numbers (short pdf)

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Feb 1st, 2007 at 02:54:25 PM EST
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Re: Fascinating employment and unemployment number (none / 0)

Le Monde also refers to an EC report "l'Emploi en Europe" (Employment in Europe), November 2006. That one must be for real journalists, since the latest version of this annual report I can find available is for 2002 (pdf).

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Feb 1st, 2007 at 03:02:49 PM EST
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Employment in Europe report, November 2006 (none / 1)

Here it is:

Employment in Europe report, November 2006

Foreword, Table of contents, Executive summary and Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Special Focus: Human Capital and Innovation; Challenges and Issues for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Chapter 5

Statistical Annex including Data sources and definitions

Macroeconomic indicators, annual percentage growth (xls format)

Key employment indicators (xls format)

Corrigendum

Executive summary in French

"Ce qui vient au monde pour ne rien troubler ne mérite ni égards ni patience." René Char

by Melanchthon on Sat Feb 3rd, 2007 at 04:18:36 PM EST
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Re: Employment in Europe report, November 2006 (none / 0)

Thanks, Melanchthon!

(under Analysis, huh, not the different places I looked!)

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Feb 4th, 2007 at 04:38:17 AM EST
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Re: Employment in Europe report, November 2006 (none / 0)

thanks! I couldn't find part time rate per sex / age and population per sex / age and public employment per sex / age. Those are needed to interpret the data properly.

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by Laurent GUERBY on Sun Feb 4th, 2007 at 03:05:32 PM EST
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The document Le Monde refers to (none / 0)

See my answer to afew above

"Ce qui vient au monde pour ne rien troubler ne mérite ni égards ni patience." René Char

by Melanchthon on Sat Feb 3rd, 2007 at 04:24:39 PM EST
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Re: Fascinating employment and unemployment number (4.00 / 1)

* not only has France created more jobs over the past 12 years than the UK, but so has Italy, the supposedly sick man of Europe!
* France has lowered its unemployment rate by 3 points in that period, the exact same as the UK. Again, Italy has done better;

So, all hail Berlusconi?... <grin>

These numbers would need to be examined in view of demographic evolutions

That's what makes France's job growth a bit less impressive, and Italy's even more impressive.

I think more differences to consider would be: growth in public/private sector, change in employment/unemployment definitions.

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

by DoDo on Fri Feb 2nd, 2007 at 02:52:22 AM EST

Re: Fascinating employment and unemployment number (none / 0)

By the way, admit it, the title of this diary is a bit funny :-)

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

by DoDo on Fri Feb 2nd, 2007 at 03:08:53 AM EST

Why... (3.50 / 1)

why it is not mentioned that Spain had recently a labor law reforms.. whcih was actually an agreement between bosses and unions which tilts heavily towards the union position?

well.. maybe it is not ht pleace but...

TO ALL OF US ET COMMUNITY....

New talking point...

Spain is the most succesful economy in job creation...and it is breaing new records with a pro-union labor reform... got it? :) :)

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Sat Feb 3rd, 2007 at 09:22:21 PM EST

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Note that the rate of unemployment stagnated in 2000-4, the period of PP absolute majority government.

"It's the statue, man, The Statue."

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Feb 7th, 2007 at 11:02:22 AM EST
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Re: Fascinating employment and unemployment (none / 0)

What's causing Spain's growth? Has tourism grown? Are the EU cohesion funds which are paying for its high speed lines a big factor?

by richardk (richard kulisz gmail) on Sun Feb 4th, 2007 at 01:34:50 AM EST

Fascinating employment and unemployment numbers | 14 comments (14 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)