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My sense is that the youth labor market in France and in the US is structured a bit differently. Between paying for college and/or for a car, which you can have at age 16 in the US whereas in France you can only get your license at 18, and many other reasons I think US youth are more likely to work part time and go to school then French youth who are in school and it seems more French youth are in school and not working then US youth. There also just seem to be more full time employees in France in the types of  waiters/waitress jobs you see students take in the US.

Jerome posted this previously. Left is the employment rate, right is the unemployed population, both as a fraction of the total number of 15-24s.

I just calculated the equivalent numbers for the US based on the US Dept of Labor 2005 annual statistics
US Youth 16-24 in 2005:
employed as % of total noninstitutional population 53.9%
unemployed as % of total population 6.9%
unemployed as percent of labor force (individuals looking for work or employed) 11.3%

Total civilian noninstitutional population 36,674,000
In labor force (looking for work of employed) 22,291,000
Not in labor force 14,383,000
Employed 19,770,000
Unemployed 2,521,000

Note: The population total does not include individuals who are institutionalized or in the military but I ran the numbers with an estimate for the total population in 2005 and even though it seems there were about 4,066,000 individuals in institutions or military in 2005 the percentage remain pretty much the same. For more data from US DOL a good resource is here.

There is also a 2005 report on youth summer employment that gives a feel for the particularities of the youth labor market.


The youth labor force--16- to 24-year-olds working or actively looking for work--grows sharply between April and July each year. During these months, large numbers of high school and college students take or search for summer jobs, and many graduates enter the labor market to look for or to begin permanent employment. This summer, the youth labor force grew by 3.0 million to a total of 24.4 million in July.

The July labor force participation rate for youth (the proportion of their population working or looking for work) was 66.6 percent in 2005.

There were 21.7 million 16- to 24-year-olds employed in July 2005, an increase of 302,000 from July 2004. The employment-population ratio for youth--the proportion of the 16- to 24-year-old civilian noninstitutional population that was employed--was 59.3 percent in July 2005.

In July 2005, 2.7 million youth were unemployed; this was a decrease of 330,000 from a year earlier. The youth unemployment rate, 11.0 percent, was down from 12.3 percent in July 2004.


by Alexandra in WMass (alexandra_wmass[a|t]yahoo[d|o|t]fr) on Mon Mar 20th, 2006 at 02:04:02 PM EST
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