500,000 people have been unemployed for more than two years - In March 1986, one quarter of the jobless had been unemployed for more than two years: above all older workers, more and more adult men and women, and even young people. As the waiting period is prolonged, the youngest and the most well-off gradually ajust. For lack of anything better, they accept to work part-time or to take any job available. Others, above all the oldest, give up looking for a job. They are excluded from the work market. Laborers, saleswomen, office workers constitute three job types associated with three forms of feminine unemployment: frequent and long for laborers, frequent but short for saleswomen, and rare and short for office workers. Masculine unemploym...