MILANO – Slight drop for the employed in April. According to the data released today byState the figure fell by 12 thousand units compared to March while it remains up by 670 thousand units on April 2021, remaining above 23 million (to 23,021,000). The unemployment rate, that is the number of those looking for a job and cannot find it, on the total of the active population, is slightly down. The rate falls to 8.4%, decreasing by 0.1 points compared to April and by 1.8 points compared to April 2021. On a monthly basis, unemployed women increase (+ 22 thousand) while unemployed men decrease (-39 thousand) . Looking at the data by gender, the divergence between men and women stands out. If the former grow among the employed (+ 31 thousand), women are in decided case (-43 thousand). In the same way, the dynamics of the unemployment rate also take different paths, while that of women rises to 9.6% (+0.2 points), that of men falls to 7.4% (-0.3 points).
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April then marks a new record for the number of temporary employees, which reach 3 million 166 thousand with an increase of 9 thousand units on March and a growth of 354 thousand units on April 2021 (+ 12.6%), representing more than half of the ” overall increase in employment (+ 670 thousand in one year). For the number of temporary employees this is the highest figure since 1977, the beginning of the historical series. Remaining then on the classification by type of employment, employees are growing very slightly (+ 5 thousand), driven as just mentioned by fixed-term contracts, while self-employed workers appear to be decreasing (-17 thousand).
On the other hand, looking at the data broken down by age groups, the figure is clearly decreasing in the 35-49 age group (-75 thousand) while it rises both in the younger workers groups between 25 and 24 years (+ 13 thousand) and in the very young in the 15- age group. 24 years (+ 14 thousand), as well as growing in the over 50 range (+ 36 thousand).
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