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Title:* *Young, Educated and Jobless in France * *Date: Dec. 2, 2012

*Source:* New York Times Author: Steven Erlanger

*Summary: *This is a “floating generation,” made worse by the euro crisis, and its plight is widely seen as a failure of the system: an elitist educational tradition that does not integrate graduates into the work force, a rigid labor market that is hard to enter, and a tax system that makes it expensive for companies to hire full-time employees and both difficult and expensive to lay them off.

*Link: *http://nyti.ms/11r82mb