Growth in employment, Renzi “effect Jobs Act” – AGI – Agenzia Journalistic Italy

17:06 September 30, 2015

(AGI) – Rome, Sept. 30 – Growth in employment in Italy and the unemployment rate touching the lowest level since February 2013, although the young unemployed are still rising. In August, according to provisional data from Istat, the estimate of employed rises further by 0.3% with an increase of 69 thousand units’ while on-year employment grew by 1.5% with 325,000 people employed in more ‘. An increase determined by the increase in workers employed (+70 thousand), mainly in term (+45 thousand). For the prime minister, Matteo Renzi, and ‘”the effect” of the Jobs Act. Enthusiastic also the Minister of Labour, Giuliano Poletti, according to which employment data confirm “that the recovery and’ a reality ‘.” And the holder of Economy, Pier Carlo Padoan, emphasizes “the permanent improvements, the result of structural choices”. In August, the unemployment rate and ‘amounted to 11.9%, down 0.1 percentage points after falling in the previous month by 0.5 points. The estimate of the unemployed decreased by 0.4% (-11mila). In the twelve months unemployment dropped by 5% (-162 thousand people looking for work) and the unemployment rate by 0.7 points. Still growing, the unemployment rate of the aged 15-24, that ‘the share of unemployed youth in the total of those assets, which stood at 40.7%, up 0.3 percentage points from the previous month. In trend terms, compared to August 2014, the employment rate of young people aged 15-24 falls by 0.1 percentage points, also down the unemployment rate (-2.3 points), compared with a growth rate of inactivity ‘ 1.2 points. On average over the last three months, for young people it observed the drop in the unemployment rate (-0.6 percentage points), compared with a slight increase in both the occupancy rate (+0.1 points) and the rate of inactivity ‘(+0.1 points). Cool the reaction of consumers and trade unions. Adusbef and Federconsumatori speak of “emphasis and unjustified optimism”.
Confederal secretary of Uil, Guglielmo Loy, to increase the number of employed and not ‘the Jobs Act but the tax relief provided by the law of stability’ 2015 . (AGI).