Italy's unemployment rate was
steady at 11.5% in January, basically the same as in December
and largely unchanged since August, according to provisional
data released by Istat on Tuesday.
The national statistics agency added that the unemployment
rate was 0.7 of a percentage point down on the same month last
year.
It said 2.951 million people were unemployed in January,
stable with respect to December and 169,000 fewer than January
2015.
However, Italy's unemployment rate for 15-to-24-year-olds
who are actively on the labour market rose to 39.3% in January,
the highest level since October, Istat said.
The number of people in employed with permanent,
open-ended contracts rose by 99,000 in January with respect to
December and was up 426,000 compared to the same month last
year, according to provisional Istat data.
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