According to the study, this represents between 390,000 and 690,000 people not using unemployment insurance.
The proportion of employees who could claim unemployment insurance without resorting to it isbetween 25% and 42%“, according to a government report addressed to Parliament, which notes that the rate of non-recourse is “comparable to that observed on other social benefits“. This report, consulted on Monday by AFP as the debates on the bill on unemployment insurance begin in the Assembly, notes that the non-recourse in this area “has been little studied», and emphasizes that the phenomenon is «difficult to measure“.
The study, originally released by The echoes, covers the period from November 2018 to October 2019, i.e. before the health crisis and the last unemployment insurance reform. The authors point out that their estimation work faces several difficulties, including the fact that the administrative data “do not make it possible to observe the condition of effective job search» or the fact that «about a third of people with an end of contractare already covered by unemployment insurance due to their previous contracts.
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They state that “depending on the scope and the assumptions used, the estimate of the rate of non-use of people not registered with Pôle emploi in the year following their end of contract varies between 25% and 42%, which represents over one year between 390,000 and 690,000 non-users“. The central estimate of the report notably excludes people already covered by unemployment insurance from the analysis. According to this central hypothesis,about 30% of people aged 25 to 60 who experience the end of their contract in the private sector without first being registered with Pôle Emploi and who meet the eligibility criteria do not use unemployment insurance“.
The authors note that the non-use of unemployment insurance is thus “close to that which can be observed for the other services“, citing the rates of”34% for RSA», «32% for pensions“. This report, produced by the Department of Statistics of the Ministry of Labor (Dares) with economists, had been provided for by the law on “freedom to choose your professional future“of 2018 which provided that it be submitted to Parliament”within two years“. Since then, elected officials had expressly requested its publication, like François Ruffin (LFI), who had accused the government of “censorthis document ahead of the presidential election.
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