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The Half-yearly note on the foreigners' labour market in Italy gives us an overview of the labour market as a whole up to the entire first half of 2019. In effect, it is an update of the employment trends described in the Ninth Annual Report published last July. 

In the second quarter of 2019, the data showed a slight increase in the employment rate: the number of people with jobs had increased overall by 0.3% compared to the second quarter of 2018.

However, it was only the segment of Italian and non-EU citizens that had grown: in fact, in the case of EU citizens, we can see a contraction in employment levels, matched by an expansion of the segment of unemployed EU foreigners, this latter phenomenon including non-EU citizens. Furthermore, we find a modest growth of labour inflows as recorded by the Statistical Information System of Compulsory Communications. The number of hirings had increased by 0.4%: however, compared to the second quarter of 2018, only the number of work contracts for non-EU citizens and Italians had grown.

- Read the Summary of the key facts (ENG)

- Half-yearly note on the foreigners' labour market in Italy 2019  (IT)

. Ninth Annual Report on "Foreigners in the Italian Labour Market" (IT)

(February, 5 2020)