Work: Cgia, employment rate among Italy more ‘low in the EU – The Republic

Rome, April 30 – To celebrate the 1st May will be about 22 million 500 thousand Italians (more ‘self-employed workers) and although the latest data presented yesterday by Istat on unemployment tell us that things are improving, our country continues to experience delays very worrying employment. Among the 28 European Union countries, only Croatia (55.8%) and Greece (50.8%) have an employment rate of more ‘lower than ours (56.3%). This rate, recall the CGIA Mestre, and ‘obtained by dividing the number of employed in a given territory and the population in age’ working between 15 and 64 years. In essence, this index is used to measure the level of employment in this country. Net of unemployed, discouraged and inactive shows that in Italy the stalls of employed registered a 17.7 percentage point gap with Germany, the United Kingdom with 16.4 points and 7.9 points with France. ‘When we analyze the data relating to the labor market – he begins the studies of the Office of the Coordinator Cgia Paul Zabeo – the attention and’ almost always addressed the trend in the unemployment rate. In reality ‘the employment rate and’ more ‘important,’ cause this alloy in glove with the index level of production of wealth of an area. In other words, between the number of jobs and wealth generated in a given area there is’ a direct relationship. Increases of one, also increases the other ‘. If the comparison with the average employment rate in the European Union our country suffers a differential of 9.3 percentage points, in the female employment rate (equal to 47.2 per cent in Italy) the gap with the EU average, and ‘ 13.2 points, while in the juvenile (which stood in 2015 to 15.6 per cent), and ‘of 17.5 percentage points at the regional level and’ the South to present major difficulties’. Almost all regions saw an occupancy rate even lower than that greek: Sardinia, for example, has 0.7 percentage points lower than the average figure of Athens, Molise 1.4, 1.6 Basilicata, Puglia 7.5, 10.8 Sicily, Campania and Calabria 11,2 11,9. ‘To give impetus to employment – says the secretary of Cgia Renato Mason – we must return to invest, given that over the last eight years this indicator has undergone a vertical drop of almost 30 percentage points. Otherwise, there is’ the danger that our country lose the challenge of innovation, research, competitiveness’ and slides into an economic stagnation with no way out ‘. In absolute terms the employment base of our country ‘consists of nearly 22 and a half million people. Since the beginning of the crisis (2008) and 2015 we lost 625,600 jobs, although between 2014 and 2015 we were able to recover approximately 186,000. Calabria (- 11.9%), Molise (-9.7%), Sicily (-8.5%) and Puglia (-8.4%) are the regions where the decrease in percentage terms the number of employed and ‘ It was the most ‘disturbing in these eight years. If the employed have returned to grow and almost reach 22.5 million units ‘, in Italy the unemployed are about 3 million, 14 million and inactive units’ standard black work (ie undeclared workers) are little more ’3.1 million units’. The latter category, and ‘consists of the Dopolavoro, pensioners, unemployed, laid off from and a good portion of people who did not have a job and has decided not to seek more’ regular employment. The rate of irregularities ‘and’ very common in the South: the latest available statistics refer to 2013 and were processed by the Office of studies Cgia on Istat data. The more ‘serious situation is in Calabria (22.9%), in Campania (21.4%) and Sicily (20%), while the national average stood at 12.8%. –

( 30 April 2016 )

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