Dynamique des allocataires du RSA à Paris

Due to its specialisation in the market services sector, the labour market in Paris was particularly affected by the health crisis and returned to normal less quickly than in the rest of France. This specificity is reflected in the flow of RSA beneficiaries: the number of beneficiaries increased by 14% over one year in Paris from November 2019 to November 2020 before starting to fall back to precrisis levels in 2021. Due to emergency measures (partial activity, extension of unemployment rights) the majority of households were protected from the immediate effects of the crisis and did not enter the RSA. In contrast, people who were protected neither by their status nor by the main emergency measures (selfemployed, unemployed without benefit) were overrepresented among the new recipients. The unusual desynchronisation between inflows and outflows during the crisis highlights that the number of recipients did not only vary according to the economic situation, but also as a result of exceptional intervention by the public authorities.