Since the late 1970s, faced with growing youth unemployment and school leavers without a diploma, the state has introduced successive hiring and training support schemes. A look back at the key dates of more than 40 years of integration policy for young people.
Between the late 1970s and the 1990s, in the face of rising unemployment and exclusion, youth integration policies promoted access to employment (assisted contracts and tax exemptions for employers) and the development of vocational training, including work-linked training.
Around the 2000s, however, integration policies will move towards simplifying the arrangements in place, which had become relatively complex to deal with. Since then, the change in approach has focused on a comprehensive approach and financial autonomy for young people in difficulty of integration.
In 2019, around 1.5 million young people aged 15-29 were not in employment, education or training (the Neets) according to INSEE (read more about Vie-publique.fr).
