In 2023, payroll employment slowed considerably, increasing by 0.6% year-on-year by the end of the year (i.e. 156,000 net job creations between the end of 2022 and the end of 2023), after +1.4% at the end of 2022 (+376,000 jobs) and +3.2% at the end of 2021 (+814,000 jobs). In Q1 2024, payroll employment grew solidly (+0.3%), especially in the market tertiary sector. This increase, driven as it was by the accommodation-catering and services to businesses sectors, was more pronounced for workers with fixed-term contracts. Since the health crisis, the sharp increase in payroll employment has been greater for young people, seniors, work-study programmes and open-ended contracts...