The number of new steady job
contracts signed in Italy rose 119% in the first two months of
2019, the INPS pensions and social security agency said
Thursday.
Some 208,560 more contracts were signed than in the first two
months of last year, INPS said.
The number of temporary contracts that became long-term ones
rose from 101,730 in the first quarter of last year to 175,677
in the same period of this year, INPS said.
This was a rise of 72.6%.
In the two-month period, the total number of hirings in the
private sector were 1,064,000, 12.7% down on the same period
last year, the agency said.
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