Employment seekers are down (-1.7%, -44,000 units in the last month). This was revealed by Istat which released provisional data for October 2019 of employed and unemployed. The unemployment trend, explains the Institute of Statistics, is a summary of a marked decline for men (-3.9%, equal to -52 thousand units) and a slight increase among women (+ 0.7% , equal to +8 thousand units), and involves all age groups except for the over-fifties. The unemployment rate drops to 9.7% (-0.2 percentage points).«After the employment growth recorded in the first half of the year and the peak reached in June, starting from July the trend is up and down, and in October it returns to the maximum level registered four months before, with an increase compared to September, due in particular to the growth of self-employed workers; at the same time there is a decrease in unemployment and an increase in inactivity. In the quarterly comparison, employment is stable while during the year it continues to grow ". This is the comment of Istat which released today the provisional data of October 2019 of employed and unemployed.
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