The Italian statistical agency Istat announced on Tuesday that a record 23.743 million people were employed in Italy in November, which is an increase of 30,000 compared to October and 520,000 compared to the same month in 2022, reports Ansa.
It said the number of full-time employees rose by 551,000 and the self-employed by 26,000, but the number of temporary workers fell by 57,000.
Italy’s unemployment rate fell to 7.5% in November, from 7.7% in October, according to provisional data released by the national statistics agency.
The agency announced that the unemployment rate of people under the age of 25 who are active in the labor market fell by 2.5 percentage points to 21.0 percent.