In February, the number of employees was 22,197,000,
or 945,000 less than in February 2020
.
Istat notes this, explaining that compared to January there has been a substantial stabilization (+6,000).
"The repeated economic downturns in employment, recorded from the beginning of the health emergency until January 2021 - we read - led to a drop in employment compared to February 2020 (-4.1% equal to -945,000 units). decrease involves men and women, employees (-590,000) and self-employed (-355,000) and all age groups.The employment rate falls by 2.2 percentage points in one year, reaching 56.5%.
The unemployment rate in February decreased by 0.1 points compared to January and increased by 0.5 points on February 2020. Istat notes this, explaining that in the month it is at 10.2%. 64 years is 37%, stable over January and up 2.1 points compared to February, before the start of the restrictions related to the pandemic.
The unemployed in February are 2,518,000, an increase of 21,000 units compared to February 2020 (-9,000 on January 2021) while the inactive between the ages of 15 and 64 are 14,084,000, an increase of 717,000 on a year earlier.
The unemployment rate of young people aged 15-24 in February was 31.6% with a drop of 1.2 points on January and a 2.6 point increase on February 2020 before the start of activity restrictions for prevent contagion from Covid.
Istat notes it.
Young people at work in February were 919,000, 15.7% of the total, with a decrease of 159,000 units compared to a year earlier and an increase of 4,000 units on January.