ISTAT said Wednesday that the number
of unemployed people in Italy dropped below the two million mark
for the first time since 2011 in the third quarter of this year,
falling to 1.981 million.
According to the national statistics agency's seasonally
adjusted data, the unemployment rate dropped to 7.9% in the
July-September period.
That was the lowest level since 2009 and down by 0.2 of a
percentage point on the previous three months and by 1.2 points
on the third quarter of last year.
The employment rate, meanwhile, remained steady at 60.2%, the
highest level on record since the start of the statistical
series on 2004.
The employment rate was 1.1 points up compared to the third
quarter of 2021.
ISTAT said that in absolute terms, 23.126 million people were
in work in the third quarter.
That was 12,000 down in the previous three months, with a 34,000
rise in short-term contracts and a 12,000 increase the number of
self-employed not making up for a drop of around 59,000 in the
number of people on permanent contracts.
The number of people in work was up by 247,000 with respect to
the equivalent period in 2021 though.
ISTAT said 1.107 million people in Italy had stopped looking for
a job as they have given up hope of finding one, a rise of 8.4%
on the third quarter of last year.
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