(ANSAmed) - ROME, JUN 11 - The level of employment in Italy
in the first trimester of 2021 has fallen by 243,000 units
(-1.1%) compared to the previous quarter and by 889,000 units
(-3.9%) over the same period last year, national statistics
agency ISTAT said on Friday.
The data in the agency's report on the labor market was
influenced by a new methodology that considers as unemployed
those workers who have been receiving the Cassa integrazione
(CIG) benefit for at least three months after being laid off or
having their hours reduced by companies in financial difficulty.
The CIG benefit has been widely used by businesses during the
pandemic.
The number of unemployed increased by 103,000 units on the
previous trimester and by 240,000 compared to the first
trimester of 2020.
In a comparison of trends, ISTAT said, the decrease involved
employees (-576,000, -3,2%), especially those with a short-term
contract, and the self-employed (-313,000, -6%).
Self-employed workers decreased below the five million
threshold for the first time since the start of the historic
series (2004). (ANSAmed).
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