ITALIAN COUNTRY REPORT

UNEMPLOYMENT

Unemployment Rate in Italy is reported by the ISTAT. Historically, from 1983 until 2012, Italy Unemployment Rate averaged 9.01 Percent reaching an all time high of 11.50 Percent in April of 1998 and a record low of 5.90 Percent in April of 2007.
In Italy, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force.

This table includes a chart with historical data for Italy Unemployment Rate.

 YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT  IN VARESE AND PROVINCE

Even if in Varese and province  the unemployment rate is  5.3% and lower than in Lombardy (5.6%) and all Italy (8.4%)  20.7% of population between 17 and 24 has no job.
The employed have dropped of the 0.4% from September 2011 to august of the same year.
The decrease concerns both men and women.
The “inactive” people ( the ones classified neither employed nor unemployed) are growing by the 0.1%, with a lot of young  that give up looking for an occupation. To be classified as unemployed you have to be registered at the Unemployment List, so you can receive the benefit, but then you have to accept the job they offer, so many people prefer  black market labour if they can earn more than the dole.

 The graphic below compares the total (green) and the youth (red) unemployment rate in Italy.