ROMA (ITALPRESS) – In 2024 the trend of growth of employment started from 2021, after the collapse of 2020 due to the pandemic crisis: the employment rate of 15-64enni reaches 62.2% (+0.7 percentage points in one year), that of unemployment falls to 6.6% (-1.2%) and that of inactivity (15-64 years) is at 33.4% (+0.1%). This is what emerges from the Istat analysis on the labour market and incomes.
In 2023 the employment rate of the population of 15-64 years increases from 60.1% to 61.5% (+1.4%), while the unemployment rate is reduced (from 8.2% to 7.8%, -0.4%) and decreases the inactivity rate (from 34.5% to 33.3%, -1.2%). The employment rate, between 2022 and 2023, increases mainly for poorer families (+2.7% in the first and +2.1% in the second and third-fifth of equivalent income, structurally characterized by lower employment rates).
This increase is associated with a relatively net contraction compared with the average change (-0.4%) of the unemployment rate (- 2.4% in the first and -1% in the second fifth). The Mezzogiorno is characterized by a lower employment rate (48.2% in 2023), compared to 2022, increases as the Northeast (+1.5%).
The increase is particularly consistent in the fifth poorest in the North-East (+5.6%) and the Centre (+3.9%). In the North-West, the relatively larger increase is the second income class (+ 2.9%) and the central halfway (+2.1%). In contrast, the fall in the employment rate in the fifth richer of the Centre (-0.5%). The employment rate of young people 25-34 years is 68.1% in 2023, with an increase of 2% compared to 2022, and by 5% in the fifth lower income.
The highest increase in the age group is between 55-64 years (+2.3%), particularly in the second fifth grade (+3.5%). The gender difference for men in employment rates is more marked in the poorest quarters: in the second fifth men have an employment rate of 66.2%, greater than 27.5% compared with women (38.7%) compared with +7.7% in the last fifth respectively 83% for men and 75.3% for women).
The share of employees indefinitely increased compared to 2022 from 39.8% to 41.2% (+1.4%), with a peak of +2.4% in the fifth central (from 42.4% to 44.8%), while slightly decreased that of employees at a time determined from 8.1% to 7.9% (-0.2%), with the exception of the fifth poorer, affected by an increase from 6.8 to 8.1 (+1.3%).
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