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France

Local work for people facing long-term unemployment

Impact evaluation · second phase · 2025 report

Territoires zéro chômeur de longue durée

What the evidence shows

The evaluation records benefits for participants but finds no significant effect on employment or wages among other residents. Program scale must not be confused with net job creation across the territory. [1][2][3]

Cost per full-time equivalent · hires in 2023
Gross cost
€26,600
Net cost · upper bound
€13,700
Net cost · lower bound
€11,300

Estimated net cost range: €11,300–13,700. Any initial contribution is additional; gross and net costs are not social benefits. [1][3]

In Territoires zéro chômeur de longue durée, employment-purpose enterprises offer work to people long excluded from the labor market, in useful local activities. The design depends on each territory’s organization. [1][2][3]

  1. Identify people and useful activities

  2. Offer employment with public support

  3. Evaluate inclusion and net cost

Costs and delivery

For hires in 2023: €26,600 gross per full-time equivalent; estimated net cost between €11,300 and €13,700, plus any initial contribution. Avoided costs and revenues do not cover all expenditure. [1][2][3]

Limits of the comparison

The fiscal estimate does not establish self-financing. Legislative developments after June 2026 were not checked; this profile describes the evaluated experience, not current eligibility.

OpenGov3's interpretation

What it can teach Brazil

What social benefit justifies the subsidy, and what share actually returns to the budget?

What to monitor when adapting it

  • Participants’ employment and conditions over the follow-up period
  • Effects on other residents’ employment and wages
  • Gross cost, expenditure avoided and net cost per full-time equivalent
  • Initial funding and resources needed to sustain the local initiative

These are criteria for analysis, not commitments already made or estimated outcomes for Brazil. A well-documented practice is not, by itself, causal proof of an entire country's success.

Sources consulted

Consulted on 10/29/2026. Each result retains its observed period; institutional descriptions and impact evaluations have different scopes.

  1. HCSP — Vers une garantie d’emploi? (2025) (opens in a new tab)

    Access page for the 2025 scientific report on the second TZCLD phase, its effects and costs.

  2. DARES — Rapport final du comité scientifique TZCLD (2025) (opens in a new tab)

    DARES page for the same 2025 scientific report; not a second independent evaluation.

  3. Sénat — Question 07411 (25/06/2026) (opens in a new tab)

    Parliamentary response of 25/06/2026 on TZCLD; not a new impact evaluation.