(ANSA) – ROME, APRIL 26 – In 2021 the average employment rate in the EU recovered from 2019 reaching 68.4% (compared to 68.1%) but the same trend is not recorded in Italy than compared to the previous period pandemic lags behind by 0.8 points (from 59% to 58.2%). Eurostat notes this. The recovery in 2021 in Italy was 0.7 points on 2020 (from 57.5% to 58.2%) compared to 1.4 points on the EU average. (from 67% to 68.4%).
Italy has the lowest employment rate in Europe after Greece which, however, in 2021 recovered 1.1 points on 2019.
The gap with the EU average is worsening as regards the employment of women; in 2021 49.4% of women between the ages of 15 and 64 were employed compared to 63.4% of the EU average with a gap of 14 points. In 2019 the gap was 12.7 points (62.9 the European average. 50.2 the Italian one) while in 2020 it was 13.6 points (62% in the EU, 48.4% in Italy). The female employment rate in Italy in 2021 was the worst in the EU after Greece (48.2% recovering in both 2019 and 2020). In Germany, 72.2% of women aged 15 to 64 were employed in 2021. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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