Il Italian labor market registered one significant growth in the first quarter of the 2023, towed mainly from the service sector, especially from the . THE'occupation employed continued to grow at a rapid pace, with the creation of over 200.000 new jobs in just four months. This figure represents about half of the jobs created in the entire previous year. This is what emerges from the analysis of the labor market in Italy in May 2023, drafted jointly by Ministry of Labour, ANPAL e Bank of Italy.
Term contracts improve
La majority of jobs created in March and April was a indefinitely (about 70%). However, it also registers a increase in forward contracts the balance of which more than doubled in comparison with the previous two months (about 35.000 positions from 15.000). After many fixed-term contracts had been transformed into permanent ones in 2022, companies have resumed activating temporary contracts more frequently. This is affected mainly from growth of the tourism sector and by the greater propensity of companies to create new fixed-term positions. With the expansion of employment, continues the gradual reduction in the rate of dismissal while the resignation, mainly due to transitions from one job to another, remain at higher levels than in the period before the health crisis.
The number of unemployed is stable
Despite employment growth in the first two months of 2023, the number of unemployed administrative remained substantially stable. This result is supported by the increase in participation rates, which helped to curb the decline in statistical and administrative unemployment.
Tourism drives employment
Il tourism sector carries out a driving role in increasing employment in Italy. In March and April, nearly 40.000 jobs were created in the tourism sector, representing around one third of the total of new jobs. In addition to tourism, other sectors are also growing, such as industry and construction, which recorded an increase in employment at a rate similar to that of the previous period, benefiting from the drop in energy prices.
Women's occupation dates back
Female employment is growing again after gender inequalities had widened over the past three years. There is an increase in female employment with 25.000 hires in March and 23.000 hires in April. TO territorial level, on the other hand, the Centre-North the number of new contracts in the Centre-North is more than double compared to the South and the Islands (in March and April they were 77 thousand against 32 thousand in the South).
“Net of propaganda, the theme of precarious work and poor work it concerns this country, in particular the South, and it is the reason why we are around the country making mobilisations. In this country, whatever the Minister of Labor and the Prime Minister say, there is a problem of precariousness”. said the secretary general of the Uil, Pierpaolo Bombardieri, on the sidelines of the presentation of the mural of legality donated by Uil Puglia to the city of Bari.
