ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that both sweet and sour. Young people who find good employment, rather than wait for the state supermarket to pay them a miserable subsistence, are not afraid to use both: brain and feet. Nevertheless, France is attracting a lower proportion of skilled immigrants than Germany, which is way behind the US in brain gain. According to Maurice Levy, CEO of Publicis, the French media company, the brain drain and high personal taxes correlate. In addition, hidden behind the numbers which propelled the exponential curve in US employment is the fact that the industry worst hit by the economic crisis is services, and not only banking. There is a limit to the number of workplaces the services industry can create, and the risk is not just temporary unemployment but a wider destabilization. Theoretically, but only theoretically, it looks like political suicide to restrict unemployment benefit because a second job has been rejected the unemployed individual.
