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•   Trends
•   A profound reshaping of employment is associated with the recruitment policy of moderation
•   The issue of external mobility

Monitoring the state reform requires having benchmarks that provides cross-country comparison of "Dashboard of public employment" published by the Center for Strategic Analysis ⁽¹⁾ . The identification of trends over time is a complementary approach of the previous one.
This paper crosses two dimensions. Enrollment growth of the state is undergoing a subtle inflection in decline since the mid-2000s. In 2009, the Court of Auditors had expressed reservations about the true extent of this adjustment by emphasizing the size of transfers between levels of government and operators.

The following analysis incorporates the information contained in budget documents until 2011 and extrapolated trends. Since 2006, departments have actually decreased by 5.3% over their jobs, excluding the effect of transfers of staff . On general government (central, local and social), employment has broadly stabilized since 2004 , marking a break with the trend observed previously. Detailed monitoring by department, category, management style also highlights an important process of recomposition of employment and highlights the value of tools, sometimes unsung, management of human resources available to the administration. Everyone agrees that change size can not be done without changing the organization and without internal mobility. And to do that requires that several conditions are met: the availability of detailed indicators of employment consistent with the broad scope of government, on which international organizations and financial markets assess public financial management ^{( 2)} , (re) set in motion a coordinated approach intégréeet workforce planning, and enabling true mobility tools between different sectors of government.

• Authors: Annick Guilloux and Olivier Passet , Department of Economics, Finance, Centre for Strategic Analysis.

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(1) A. Barbier-Gauchard, A. Guilloux, M.-F. The Gilly (2010), Scoreboard public employment situation in France and international comparisons, in December.
(2) The criteria that countries in the euro area have committed themselves in the framework of the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) are defined within this scope.