Mobility, a persistent impediment to the skilled integration of younger individuals | EUROtoday

“In order preparation, we start early in the morning or late in the evening, because we have to deliver to customers quickly. With these staggered schedules, public transport is not enough. I had to refuse job offers because I couldn’t travel on my own.”explains Emilie, 22, who lives in the Lyon metropolitan area.

But the young woman hopes to soon emerge from unemployment: she has benefited from financial support which has already enabled her to obtain her license. He still has to buy a car…

Emilie is not an isolated case: in an OpinionWay survey for the Apprentis d’Auteuil foundation, published on November 14 and carried out among a representative sample of 2,001 young people aged 18 to 25, 76% of respondents say they have already giving up a job or training for reasons of mobility. In detail, 61% of the people concerned cite unsuitable schedules or a lack of accessibility to public transport, 56% the absence of a means of personal transport.

Financial reasons

This obstacle also has financial reasons: 54% of young people complain about the price of gasoline, 43% about the price of tickets or subscriptions for public transport. These difficulties can also compromise their continued training or employment: 66% of respondents have already missed an exam, a professional meeting, been expelled from class or dismissed due to a transport problem.

18-25 year olds labeled “NEET” (“Not in Education, Employment or Training”in accordance with the English acronym, which designates individuals neither in employment, nor in research, nor in coaching) are even worse off: 83% of them say they’ve given up employment or coaching on account of a mobility drawback. Which is hardly shocking as a result of “they accumulate handicaps”analyzes Pascal Borniche, North-East regional director of the Apprentis d’Auteuil basis, which helps them.

Due to the surge in real estate prices, low-income families, from whom NEETs often come and who still host them, often live in outlying areas where public transport is rare. Less qualified than other young people, they only have access to industrial or service jobs (logistics, commerce, maintenance, etc.) with staggered hours in peripheral commercial or industrial areas that are just as poorly served.

In this configuration, getting a job requires a car, but they then come up against a financial obstacle: their parents struggle to finance their license, the purchase of a vehicle or gasoline.

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