The employment gap between
Italy's wealthy, industrialized North and its chronically
impoverished South narrowed slightly for the second consecutive
quarter, Istat national statistics bureau said in its labor
report Friday. Over half of the 247,000 new jobs created in the
third quarter occurred in the South (+136,000 over the same
period last year). However the South still has the nation's
highest unemployment rate at 19%, according to Istat.
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