8/1/2011 00:00:00
According to Istat provisional data seasonally adjusted, unemployment rate remains virtually unchanged in November at 8.7% (the highest since January 2004). The rate of youth unemployment (15-24 years) is instead increased to 28.9%, the highest level since January 2004, an increase of 0.9 percentage points over the previous month and 2.4 percentage points compared to November 2009. Same trend for the female unemployment rate which reported an increase of 0.3% in one year, reaching 10%.