In June, it occupied 22 thousand less than in May. Unemployment rose to 12.7% – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published on July 31, 2015 at 10:19.
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The exploit of April does not repeat itself: even in June the employed fell by 0, 1% (after falling 0.3% in May), 22 thousand less than in the previous month. Especially young people employed between 15 and 24 fell by 2.5 percent. The employment rate down 0.1 points on May, reaching 55.8%. Compared to June 2014, employment was down by 0.2% (-40mila units), while the rate appears unchanged. Have monthly data Istat to reveal even a picture of lights and shadows for the Italian labor market.

Unemployed: + 55 thousand on May + 85 thousand of June 2014
On a monthly basis, the number of unemployed has increased by 1.7% (55 thousand) and of 5.2% if you look only at young people (+ 34 thousand). Above all, the unemployment rate – which had fallen by 0.2% in April and had remained steady in May – increased by 0.2 percentage points to 12.7 percent. In the twelve months the number of unemployed has risen by 2.7% (85 thousand) and the unemployment rate by 0.3 points. The youth unemployment rate rose to 44.2% in June and is at its highest since the beginning of time series monthly and quarterly, in the first quarter of 1977. But “the increase in the number of unemployed in the last 12 months – explains ‘Istat – is associated with an increase in participation in the labor market, as witnessed by the reduction in the number of inactive. “

Inactive down: -18mila last month
A reduction undeniable: inactive people between 15 and 64 years last month declined by 0.1% (-18mila), resuming the trend started earlier this year that it was interrupted in May. The inactivity rate amounted to 35.9%, down 0.1 percentage points compared to May. If you look at twelve months, the inactive are at least 131 thousand (-0.9%) and the inactivity rate was down by 0.2 points.

Renzi: “Well that’s come back disheartened believe it,”
Commenting on the figures at the end of the Council of Ministers, the Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has acknowledged that there are “aspects positive and negative, “and that there is” still much to do. ” He stressed that since the beginning of ‘grow both employed and unemployed people “explaining it this way:” Those who are disheartened return to believe, increases the number of people who found their jobs, but also those He is looking for him. This is the signal of a small re-start. ”

Taddei: in Q2 employment effects
“The occupation follows economic growth, hardly the opposite happens,” notes the Treasurer of the Democratic Party Filippo Taddei, that “it should be emphasized how fast it dropped the number of workers laid off from the beginning of 2015 and 2014: it is more than 110 thousand employees in more effective at work. It is normal to be so when the economy gets back into gear before they return to work laid off, then open spaces to the unemployed. It is unreasonable to issue a definitive opinion on the effects of the labor reform or the economic policy of the government at this time. ” “In advanced economies – continues – employment increases followed with a delay of six months economic growth. For the Italian economy, where growth is distributed in the first six months of 2015, this means that we will see stronger effects on increasing employment in the second half of 2015 “.

Poletti “fluctuation typical of the recovery”
If the opposition, Forza Italy in Sel, rages attack the government and spoke of “dramatic figures “even the Labor Minister Giuliano Poletti provides a more reassuring:” The June numbers confirm that we are dealing with data subject to the fluctuations that characterize a stage when the economic recovery begins to manifest itself. ” “The employment rate remains substantially unchanged,” adds Poletti, and the decline of the inactive ‘is a sign of the growing confidence of the citizens on increasing opportunities in the labor market. ” Not only Poletti recovers data on the increase in permanent contracts and those on CIG, concluding that “basically, we can say that 111 thousand workers, technically employed but employees at zero hours today have returned to work full-time.”

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