What sees, in the first quarter of 2024, the increase in employment in Liguria of 2.5% compared to the same period last year (from 612,272 to 627,283 units) is “a higher figure than that of Italy (+1.7%), the North West (+2.1%) and the North East (+0.6%)” is that “he confirms the state of health of the Ligurian economy, which is reflected directly and concretely on work“.
This is the comment of the interim president of the Liguria Region, Alessandro Piana, on the Istat data released today regarding the world of work, underlining how “cat the same time, the Ligurian employment rate also rose from 65.4% to 66.3%, and unemployment fell, again compared to the same period in 2023, by as much as 13.3%. Also regarding unemployment“, with “a more marked decline than what occurs at a national level (-5.9%), in the North West (-4.4%) and in the North East (-7.5%)“.
In summary: Ligurian employment is growing for both women (+3.7%, +10,051 units) and men (+1.5%, +4,960 units), and both employed workers are growing (+2.4% , +11,218 units) than the self-employed (+2.6%, +3,794 units).
In Liguria the unemployed decrease, going from 44,867 units in the 1st quarter of 2023 to 38,911 units in the 1st quarter of 2024. The Ligurian unemployment rate drops from 6.8% to 5.9%. Finally, from the Mandatory Communications it appears that new permanent contracts grew by +2.5% (+294 units) compared to the first quarter of 2023.
“Worth underlining is the growth of the services sector (+3.6%) and the trade, hotels and restaurants sector, which is truly relevant for our economic system, which recorded an encouraging +7.6% in a quarter, the one from January to March, which traditionally was not particularly linked to tourism but which, thanks to deseasonalization, is changing its face” is the comment of the councilor for Labor Augusto Sartori.
“Even in the industrial sector, separating the data from the construction sector in which the ‘speculative’ wave due to the 110 bonuses ended, there was growth of 8.3% for a total of 7152 units. This confirms – concludes Sartori – the ever-increasing confidence of the business world in the future of our region“.
