Work, 23.3 million employed, record since 2004: Istat-Corriere.it data

Employed people are still growing in Italy and reach the highest level ever recorded since, in January 2004, when Istat began the monthly surveys. In fact, they attest to a 23.3 million employed in January 2023, with an employment rate of 60.8% (+0.1 point). Compared to the annual comparison, there are 459,000 more units.

Istat data

Istat indicates that employment has grown overall by 0.2%, equal to 35,000 more units, especially for women, permanent employees and those over 35 years old. In January, a decrease was recorded for temporary employees, the self-employed and young people. There are still many, however, and people looking for work are growing: on a monthly basis the figure registers a +1.7%, equal to 33,000 more units and they are mainly women or under 50 years of age. Also growth for the rate unemployment which in January 2023 stood at 7.9% (+0.1 points), youth at 22.9% (+0.7 points). The decrease in the number of inactive people between the ages of 15 and 64 (-0.7%, equal to -83 thousand units) involves men, women and people over 35 years of age. The inactivity rate drops to 33.9% (-0.2 points).

Female and independent work

2023 “opens favorably from the point of view of the labor market”, says the Confcommercio research office. The same increase in the unemployment rate can be interpreted in a positive sense, because it is “induced by greater participation in the labor market, as underlined by the decline, for the second consecutive month, of the inactive”. The association also notes that it is tothe participation of women in the professional world has also increasedAnd, even if in comparison with international situations, our country still shows “serious deficits”. Still worrying, according to Confcommercio, is the condition of self-employment: “compared to the previous year, the increase is only 42,000 units”.