Trésor-Economics No. 77 - The decline in industrial employment in France (1980-2007): how to account for it?
The decline in industrial employment has affected France like many of the developed economies. It can be pictured in the light of three concomitant trends over the period 1980-2007, namely the decline in industrial employment, a fall in this sector's contribution to GDP and, in parallel, strong growth in the market services sector.French industrial employment fell from 5.3 to 3.4 million jobs over... Lire la suite