Employment: the most dynamic areas of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region are …

Lyon, Chambéry, Aubenas and Montélimar … These employment areas are the most dynamic in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region according to INSEE, which provided the press with its badysis of local labor markets over the period 2006-2013.

A dynamism supported by jobs turned outward and less affected by the crisis. But also by the needs of the local population, who have progressed a little more than regional average (a trend particularly marked in the Aubenas area).

Together, these four areas account for 30% of the region's labor force. And they also attract many people whom INSEE calls "commuters": these people who live and work in different employment areas. Montélimar saw the number of these external workers increase by 26% over the period studied.

Annecy, Vienne, Bourgoin-Jallieu among the preferred domiciliations of "commuters"

Logically, the "commuters" Lyonnais are more numerous to live in the near areas: Villefranche-sur-Saone, Bourg-en-Bresse, Ambereu-en-Bugey, Bourgoin-Jallieu and Vienne-Roussillon. Romans-sur-Isère hosts the workers of Valencia, while Annecy sends his family to Geneva.

In these seven zones, from 2006 to 2013, INSEE has 28,200 "outgoing shuttles". Outward-looking workers who therefore do not claim the 20,400 jobs created at the same time within these perimeters. A boon to reduce unemployment? Unfortunately no. With an active population that grew by 53,700 people at the same time, the account is not quite there: it has increased a little.

Border worker traffic explodes

This phenomenon of shuttles is much more marked in the French Genevois and the Chablais, under the influence of the powerful attraction of Switzerland. And French workers are not the only ones crossing the border every day. Thanks to the better price of real estate, the Swiss are also numerous to join the ranks of the new residents of these areas. In all, "a third of additional commuting is identified from these areas to the outside," the institute reveals. And more than half of the increase in the labor force in these areas comes from migration.

The Oyonnax basin and the Arve Valley lose 6,300 jobs

As INSEE points out, "the industries of the Arve Valley and the Oyonnax basin have experienced significant economic difficulties": 6300 fewer jobs over these seven years. To adapt, the inhabitants of the Oyonnax basin were numerous to simply move. The area lost 6.3% of its labor force, which helped cushion some of the rise in unemployment.

For the Vallée de l'Arve, the inhabitants have on their side sought and found work in the neighboring areas of Mont Blanc, the French Genevois and Switzerland. Shuttles to the outside (+2200) are therefore up sharply, but not for the same reasons as in the previous cases.