It is an almost exclusively female decline in employment recorded in December 2020. Istat data had marked a recovery between July and November. Since December, however, employment has returned to decline, despite the blocking of layoffs until the end of March. It is mainly women who are losing their jobs: workers have dropped by 101,000, of which 99,000 are women.
The female employment rate in December it fell by 0.5 points and that of inactivity increased by 0.4%.
On the other hand, male employment is stable and inactivity is down slightly, minus 0.1.
Employed and unemployed (12-2020) #state #statistichevisual https://t.co/fFBgmMWXBk pic.twitter.com/oK8WTyX14Q
– State (@istat_it) February 1, 2021
They are affected all age groups except those over 50, which are instead growing. As for the categories, it affects employees, but the most affected are self-employed workers: 79,000 jobs in December alone compared to November.
The decline is not limited to the previous month. Compared to 2019 there are 444 thousand fewer workers and the inactive have grown by 482 thousand units. And women are still the majority: 312,000 have lost their jobs. It happens because they are mostly employed in sectors affected by the pandemic such as services (emblematic case that of industrial laundries stopped due to the closure of restaurants and hotels, but it applies to the entire tourism and catering sector). It also happens because they are more appropriately employed in precarious jobs.
In December, fewer employees compared to November (-101 thousand units). Permanent employees (-16 thousand), temporary employees (-7 thousand) and self-employed workers (-79 thousand) decreased #state https://t.co/fFBgmMWXBk pic.twitter.com/vYfmWoGstB
– State (@istat_it) February 1, 2021
In total in December the unemployment rate has risen to 9%, the youth rate is close to 30%. In one year, on the other hand, the employment rate fell by 0.9 percentage points. In addition to women, younger workers pay the highest price especially because they have precarious jobs. The age group between 15 and 24 loses 145,000 units and falls below one million employed compared to December 2019, while that between 25 and 34 years loses 181,000 units.
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