Central statistics bureau Istat reported estimates of the main labour market indicators resulting from the ‘Labour force survey’. A total of 208,283 people claimed benefits for temporarily laid off workers in 2013, meaning they are in real danger of being made permanently unemployed in the near future. Unemployment reached a record 12.7% of the workforce in November 2013 with nearly 42% of under-25s out of work. There were 522,000 fewer people employed in the third quarter of 2013, with 333,000 in the economically less developed south.
English: http://www.istat.it/en/archive/109139
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