Sardinia is the third region in Italy in which employment , between employees and self-employed workers, in 2021 increased more than in 2020 even if the gap with respect to 2019 still remains deep.
These are the numbers of the Research Office of Confartigianato Imprese Sardegna , which analyzed Istat data: in the island in 2021 employees grew by 2.5% compared to 2020 (+ 11 thousand units) reaching 563 thousand units. Compared to 2019 , however, the trend is down by 3.2% , marking a gap of 19 thousand places .
"The prolongation of the war in Ukraine, the amplification of the energy crisis and the persistence of criticalities in the procurement and prices of raw materials - comments Maria Amelia Lai , President of Confartigianato Imprese Sardegna - could interrupt the recovery process of the labor market after the recession caused by the pandemic. We hope this is not the case: the data show that our region, despite an employment gap to be recovered compared to 2019, is more resilient than other regions of Italy ".
THE DATA - Observing the data relating to the employment rate (employees and self-employed between 15-64 years), if in Italy the figure worsens compared to the level of 2019, decreasing by 0.8%, in Sardinia the comparison between the 3 years ( 2019-2020-2021) is essentially positive. In fact, the employment data of 2021 (53.6% of employed) on 2020 (51.7% of employed) say of a + 1.8%, while those of 2021 on 2019 (53.7% of employed) still see a slight gap of 0.1%.
More worrying is the unemployment situation: in 2019 it was 14.9%, in 2020 it dropped to 13.2% to rise to 13.5% in 2021. To these data we must add those of unemployment , which in 2019 was 36.6%, increased to 40.2% in 2020 and dropped to 37.9% in 2021.
