SOCIAL IMPACTS

THE SOCIAL IMPACTS IN FRANCE

Vulnerable collectives were the first in which the social effects of the crisis were shown, as also whose suffered the worst. Those collectives were young people, people without studies, migrants and ethnic minorities, older people, children, single parents.

Increase in inequality, richest becoming richer, poor’s poorer, people entering in poverty, high unemployment (younger and older people), negative changes in labor market, increase in violence, homelessness, drop in living standards… led to a rise in intolerance, racism and xenophobia. 

Figure 1. Income inequality. Gini coefficient, 0 = complete equality; 1 = complete inequality, 2000 – 2016.

Income is defined as household disposable income in a particular year. The Gini coefficient is based on the comparison of cumulative proportions of the population against cumulative proportions of income they receive, and it ranges between 0 in the case of perfect equality and 1 in the case of perfect inequality.