Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Istat: in February increased unemployment – IN DIES

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Back to growing unemployment, after the positive signals of December and the substantial stability of January.

In February 2015 the employed decreased by 0.2% (-44 million), according to the monthly note Istat.

The employment rate, at 55.7%, fell last month by 0.1 percentage points. However, compared to February 2014, employment grew by 0.4% (+93 thousand) and the employment rate by 0.2 points.

The number of inactive people aged 15 to 64 years showed a slight increase last month (+ 0.1%), remained close to those of the previous two months. The inactivity rate has remained stable at 36.0%, against 36.4% in February 2014. On an annual basis the inactive decreased by 1.4% (-204 thousand).

(Source ISTAT)

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