Precarious employment in France would reached its highest peak and now it is gradually declining. This is the hypothesis supported by INSEE in the 2011 “Job and salary” report that analyzes the labor market evolution and the wage changes during 1990-2008 period. It stresses the exponential growth of fixed-term contracts and temporary jobs in the 90′s followed by a normalization from 2000 until the end of 2007. The lack of dynamism in the labor market, the low growth rates and the flexible working time introduced by French law should be on the base of the new millennium’s precarious jobs decreasing. According to the study, men and young people are those that mainly sign for a fixed-term employment. The formers, because they work in sectors such as construction or manufacturing companies that use the interim to cope unskilled labor exceptional needs for limited periods of time. The latters as first work experience. Comparing these data with those after 2008′s economic crisis, it is also possible to note that thanks to its greater flexibility, temporary work, over the years, has played an adjustment function of the labor market, increasing when the economy grows, and decreasing in crisis time (-35% in 2008)
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