{"id":36145,"date":"2025-08-01T00:03:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T00:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/36145\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T00:03:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T00:03:23","slug":"italy-june-unemployment-rate-falls-to-6-3-with-16000-jobs-created-in-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/36145\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy June unemployment rate falls to 6.3% with 16,000 jobs created in month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">ROME (Reuters) -Italy&#8217;s unemployment rate fell to 6.3% in June from 6.5% in May, national statistics bureau ISTAT reported on Thursday, as a net 16,000 jobs were created during the month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">A Reuters survey of 8 analysts had forecast a June jobless rate of 6.4%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The youth unemployment rate, measuring job-seekers between 15 and 24 years old, decreased to 20.1% from 21.5%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">In the period between April and June, employment in the euro zone&#8217;s third-largest economy was up by 93,000 units, or 0.4%, compared with the previous three months, ISTAT said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">In June, there were 363,000 more people in work than in the same month last year, an increase equal to 1.5%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The employment rate, one of the lowest in the euro zone, was stable at 62.9%, while the so-called &#8220;inactivity rate&#8221;, measuring those neither working nor looking for work, rose to 32.8% from a previous 32.6%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Italy&#8217;s long-running increase in employment has come against a backdrop of weak economic growth and stagnant wages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Italian gross domestic product grew by just 0.7% in each of the last two years, and the government forecasts 0.6% growth this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Antonella Cinelli, graphic by Stefano Bernabei, editing by Giulia Segreti)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROME (Reuters) -Italy&#8217;s unemployment rate fell to 6.3% in June from 6.5% in May, national statistics bureau ISTAT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[64,63,99,167,180,165,12781],"class_list":["post-36145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-employment-rate","tag-jobs","tag-unemployment-rate","tag-youth-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}