In August 2024 the number of both employed and inactive people rose, while unemployed persons fell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On a monthly basis, the increase in employment (+0.2%, +45 thousand) affected men and all age groups except those aged 35-49, for whom a decline in employment was observed, as well as for women. Overall, the employment rate remained unchanged at 62.3%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the last month, the drop in the number of unemployed persons (-2.8%, -46 thousand) involved both genders and all age groups, again with the exception of 35-49 year olds. The unemployment rate fell to 6.2% (-0.2 p.p.), the youth rate to 18.3% (-1.7 p.p.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In August, the number of inactive people aged 15 to 64 increased (+0.4%, +44 thousand) for men, women and persons aged 15-34 and 50+, while it decreased for those aged 35-49. The inactivity rate rose to 33.4% (+0.1 p.p.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Employment also increased in the period June-August 2024 (+0.5, +114 thousand) in comparison with the previous quarter (March-May 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On a quarterly basis, a drop was registered in the number of unemployed persons (-5.6%, -97 thousand) while the number of inactive people aged 15-64 years grew (+0.6%, +68 thousand).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Compared with August 2023, the number of employed persons rose by 2.1% (+494 thousand) and the growth concerned both genders and all age groups; the employment rate showed an increase of 0.8 p.p. .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On a yearly basis, the rise of employed people was accompanied by a decrease of unemployed persons\u00a0(-18.3%, -355 thousand) while the number of inactive persons aged 15-64 increased (+0.9%, +106 thousand).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In August 2024, employment grew (+0.2%). Unemployment rate down to 6.2 % (-0.2 p.p.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4082],"tags":[3296,3714,3495,3711,2968,3208],"regione":[],"tema":[4071],"class_list":["post-75694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","tag-employed","tag-employment-and-unemployment","tag-labour","tag-labour-force","tag-flash","tag-unemployed","tema-labour"],"meta_fields":{"data_pubblicazione":"","descrizioneperiodo":"","titolobreve":"","news":"","news_rss":"","sottotitolo":""},"acf":[],"wpml_current_locale":"en_US","wpml_translations":[],"tags-info":[{"id":3296,"label":"employed","slug":"employed"},{"id":3714,"label":"employment and unemployment","slug":"employment-and-unemployment"},{"id":3495,"label":"labour","slug":"labour"},{"id":3711,"label":"labour force","slug":"labour-force"},{"id":2968,"label":"statistics flash","slug":"flash"},{"id":3208,"label":"unemployed","slug":"unemployed"}],"categories-info":[{"id":4082,"label":"Press release","slug":"press-release"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79083,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75694\/revisions\/79083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75694"},{"taxonomy":"regione","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regione?post=75694"},{"taxonomy":"tema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tema?post=75694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}