Social origin weighs on the destiny of young people in France, and the public policies applied to confront it, with resources considered modest, remain fragmented and poorly coordinated, without structurally addressing the roots of inequalities, highlights a report by France Stratégie published this Tuesday .
But, if the development of these skilled jobs has benefited young people of all backgrounds, “this progression of social mobility has been interrupted since the early 2000s”, a deterioration that “especially affects young men”, he adds. .
69% of young people from working families have a job as a worker or employee
Thus, young people “often occupy the same position as their parents,” the report notes: in 2019, between five and eight years after completing their studies, more than 80% of those born in “dominant executive” families held a position. manager or higher or middle intellectual profession, and 69% of those from working families have a job as a worker or employee. This weight of origin “is observed from the moment one enters the labor market”, with a diploma that differs “strongly” depending on the social environment, the report continues.
Given this situation, public policies in favor of the social mobility of young people are “multiple” (more than 50 state measures in 2022) and “very heterogeneous,” the report explains. Half correspond to education, 40% to employment and the rest to other areas, such as culture or citizenship. The committed resources amount to 13,000 million euros in 2022, or around 12.5% of the resources allocated by the State to youth, he details, with a “great dispersion of efforts”, “distributed between different ministries and administrations.”
Furthermore, these measures have “a largely curative approach,” he observes, and work to “repair what public education and employment policies have difficulty achieving: equality of opportunity,” and lack “articulation and coordination.”
For France Stratégie, this observation requires “questioning the roots of these inequalities in a more structural way.” He also advocates “better monitoring of existing systems – undoubtedly with simplification and concentration on the most relevant ones -“, with “long-term” evaluations, which “are too often missing.”
Source: BFM TV
