ISTAT said Wednesday that 23.255
million people were in employment in Italy in the third quarter
of 2018, a drop of 52,000 with respect to the previous three
months.
It is the first quarter-on-quarter drop in the absolute
number of people in work since the first quarter of 2015.
The national statistics agency added, however, that the
number of people in employment was up by 147,000 with respect to
the third quarter of 2017.
ISTAT said the proportion of working-age people who are in
employment was steady at 58.7%.
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