{"id":79070,"date":"2024-10-31T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/?p=79070"},"modified":"2024-10-31T10:03:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T09:03:52","slug":"employment-and-unemployment-provisional-estimates-september-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/press-release\/employment-and-unemployment-provisional-estimates-september-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Employment and unemployment (provisional estimates) &#8211; September 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In September 2024 the number of both employed and unemployed people decreased, while inactive persons rose.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a monthly basis, the fall in employment (-0.3%, -63 thousand) affected both genders and people in the 15-24 and 35-49 age groups, while an increase in employment was observed for people aged 25-34, and those aged 50+ remained substantially stable. Overall, the employment rate dropped to 62.1% (-0.1 p.p.).<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the last month, the decline in the number of unemployed persons (-0.9%, -14 thousand) involved males and those aged 35 and over, while unemployment rose among women and those under 35. The unemployment rate remained unchanged at 6.1%, the youth rate climbed to 18.3% (+0.3 p.p.).<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In September, the number of inactive people aged 15 to 64 increased (+0.4%, +56 thousand) for men, women and for all age groups except those aged 25-34, for whom a decline was observed. The inactivity rate rose to 33.7% (+0.2 p.p.).<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Comparing the third quarter with the second quarter of 2024, employment increased (+0.4, +84 thousand).<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a quarterly basis, a drop was registered in the number of unemployed persons (-8.5%, -147 thousand) while the number of inactive people aged 15-64 years grew (+1.1%, +138 thousand).<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compared with September 2023, the number of employed persons rose by 1.3% (+301 thousand) with the growth affecting both sexes and all age groups except the 35-49 age group, which remainded substancially stable; the employment rate showed an increase of 0.4 p.p. .<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a yearly basis, the rise of employed people was accompanied by a decrease of unemployed persons (-21.4%, -423 thousand) while the number of inactive persons aged 15-64 increased (+2.8%, +337 thousand).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September 2024, employment decreased (-0.3%). Unemployment rate unchanged at 6.1%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4082],"tags":[3296,3714,3495,2968,3208],"regione":[],"tema":[4071],"class_list":["post-79070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","tag-employed","tag-employment-and-unemployment","tag-labour","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":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\/79070","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79070"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79082,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79070\/revisions\/79082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79070"},{"taxonomy":"regione","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regione?post=79070"},{"taxonomy":"tema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tema?post=79070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}