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Italian Employment and unemployment: provisional estimates
In order to improve the timeliness of statistical information on the Italian labour market and in accordance with the agreements made within the European Union, Istat publishes monthly estimates of the main labour market indicators resulting from the “Labour force survey”. In January 2016, 22,632 million persons were employed, +0.3% compared with December 2015. Unemployed were 2,951 million, unchanged over the previous month. Employment rate was 56.8%, +0.1 percentage points compared with December 2015, unemployment rate was 11.5%, unchanged over the previous month, and inactivity rate was 35.7%, -0.1 percentage ... (full story)