Work: Unemployment rises again, records among young people – AGI – Agenzia Journalistic Italy

21:46 July 31, 2015

(AGI) – Rome, July 31 – Youth unemployment jumped aimassimi history: ever so ‘since 1977. The unemployment rate of the aged 15-24, that’ the proportion of the total unemployed active (employed and unemployed), and ‘amounted to 44.2% in June, an increase of 1.9% on the previous month. This was announced by Istat, noting that young people excluded from the calculation are inactive, that ‘those who are not busy I’ looking for work, in most cases because ‘involved in the studies. The number of young inactive decreased by 0.5% in the monthly comparison (-23 thousand). The rate of inactivity ‘between 15 and 24 fell by 0.2 percentage points, reaching 74%. With reference to the average of the last three months, for young people aged 15-24 is growing, the unemployment rate (0.8 percentage points), while fall is the employment rate (-0.2 points) and the rate of inactivity ‘( -0.1 points). Piu ‘in general, the number of unemployed – detects Istat – and’ increased by 1.7% (+ 55 thousand). After the drop in April (-0.2%) and the stationarity ‘of May, in June the unemployment rate grew by 0.2% from the previous month, reaching 12.7%. In the twelve months the number of unemployed and ‘increased by 2.7% (+85 million) and the unemployment rate by 0.3 percentage points. Fall while in June the employed 0.1% (-22 thousand units’) after strong growth in April (+ 0.6%) and the decline in May (-0.3%). The employment rate, 55.8%, decreases of 0.1%. Compared to June 2014, employment down by 0.2% (-40 thousand). “The numbers in June confirms that we are dealing with data subject to the fluctuations that characterize a stage when the economic recovery begins to occur,” said Labour Minister Giuliano Poletti: “However, it remains important to emphasize that, even in the face of such substantial stability ‘as recorded by ISTAT and’ a clear process of change in the quality ‘and in the composition of employment. ” The figure for the first half 2015 “is in fact an increase of 250,000 activations of permanent contracts, rose from 696,000 in 2014 to 947,000 in 2015 (+ 36%), compared with a limited increase in terminations passing from 633 to 664 thousand (4.9%). ” Compared with the past year, “the share of permanent contracts to total activations grows so ‘from 16.1% to 21.9%. Finally, there is a strong increase of the transformation of fixed-term contracts of indefinite duration , that in the period from January to June pass from 129,000 in 2014 to 183 in 2015 (+ 41.8%). ” Different view of the union: “It ‘s still possible to radically change the Jobs Act and enact real active policies, a damping system that meets the needs of the labor market, and a plan that will create new jobs,” said the confederal secretary of the CGIL, Serena Sorrentino.
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