1/8/2011 00:00:00
According to provisional data from Istat, the unemployment rate in June 2011 is stable and amounted to 8%. Employment is down compared to May (-14,000 units) for the decline in the female component. The same trend is recorded on an annual basis. In June, the youth unemployment rate falls to 27.8%, down by 0.4 percentage points. The figure for June is the lowest since the beginning of the year but remains higher than in June 2010 when it was 27.5%. In July and August 2010 it stood at 26.8%.