Employment numbers in Italy show the heavy impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a rise in the size of the inactive population. This is a sign that the labour market is frozen. The unemployment rate surprisingly fell from 8% in March to 6.3% in April. But this was because many people moved into the inactive category, which rose by 746,000 and pushed up the country’s inactivity rate from 36.1% to 38.1%. The country’s overall employment numbers fell by 274,000.
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