The distribution of the main occupational and economic activity characteristics of the active population of these regions is similar to their distribution in France (Table 1).
"It depends on changes in the active population," he said.
In 2014, Kinross paid about $10m in taxes and currently employs 3,300 people in the mine, about 8% of the active population in the city.
These difficulties were illustrated this morning by ILO data showing that the employment rate failed to increase among the active population it remained at 64.7%.
According to official figures published by the French ministry of labour, the number of unemployed rose by 0.8% in July, reaching 3.42 million, with unemployment affecting 10.2% of the active population, compared with 7.5% before the financial crisis.
Immigrants represent 9% of the active population in France and contribute 8.9% to the labour market, according to a study for the French government's stategic analytical centre in 2012.
'All we actually do is sit around, get bored shitless and smoke big spliffs.' Forty per cent of Algerians are under 30; more than a quarter of the active population is unemployed.
French trade unions represent only 7% of the active population, mostly employees already in highly protected sectors – partly because trade union finances are closely connected to the public sector and large enterprises.
But the lower classes have not disappeared, as some would have us believe: the decline in the number of workers – almost a quarter of the active population – is partly compensated by the spread of manufacturing jobs now classified as services.
There was a rural exodus from the impoverished countryside and a dramatic fall of the active population engaged in agriculture, from about two-fifths in 1960 to about one-fifth by 1976.
From the turn of the 20th century, there was a gradual decline in the proportion of Third World workers engaged in agriculture, but even so, until World War II fully three-quarters of the active population was engaged in farming.
