Employment

• Work for 50 to150 hours with pay of 9.30-11.40 Euros per hour can be contracted by students

Below are the approximate figures for employment in Italy

Total Workforce in Italy

• The North – 11.927 million + 656,000 = 12.583 million
• The Centre – 4.885 million + 345,000 = 5.23 million
• The South – 6.282 million + 946,000 = 7.228 million

People in Employment in Italy

• The North – 11.927 million – 6.808 million men – 5.120 million women
• The Centre – 4.885 million – 2.811 million men – 2.072 million women
• The South – 6.282 million – 4.077 million men – 2.205 million women
• This gives a total of 23.094 million. 19.507 million Italians are in full time work, 3.586 work part time. There were 17.214 million employees and 2.350 million have work contracts with a fixed term. ‘Fixed term’ means the contracts are not permanent.
• The population of Italy, according to the CIA World Fact Book is 61,321,000.
• 1.947 million Italians were without work.

People Not in Employment in Italy broken down as follows:

• The North – 656,000 – 319,000 men – 337,000 women – 5.5% unemployed
• The Centre – 345,000 – 163,000 men – 182,000 women – 7.0% unemployed
• The South – 946,000 – 537,000 men – 409,000 women – 15.0% unemployed

Current Unemployment Level in Italy

• The overall official unemployment level for Italy as a whole in Q2 of 2011 was 7.8%.In numbers, this translates into around 2 million Italians who are not working – at least on paper.