The number of job seekers registered with Pôle emploi in category A – with no activity at all – in metropolitan France saw a 0.3% decrease in October, which is 11,700 fewer unemployed people compared to September, according to the Ministry of Labor, this Thursday.
However, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, 324,000 people were unemployed. That’s 0.7% more than in September.
In the Alpes-Maritimes, this corresponds to 70,300 unemployed, which is +1.7% compared to last month.
Nationally, this is the second consecutive monthly decrease. In September, unemployment had declined by 1.9% compared to the previous month, marking the largest percentage drop since November 2000.
This is the largest annual decline observed since May 2008 (-101,300 job seekers with no activity over the past twelve months, or -2.8%), continues the ministry, which adds that “the structural nature of this improvement is reinforced by the decrease of more than 20,000 in the number of long-term job seekers in one year.”
Over a year, data from Insee (-118,000 unemployed) and from Pôle emploi (-101,300 job seekers registered in category A) align and confirm the decline in unemployment.
