Best Italia Economy Portal: The incomes of families in the South fell by 24.8% compared to 2007

Monday, February 9, 2015

The incomes of families in the South fell by 24.8% compared to 2007 – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published on February 9, 2015 at 17:17.

The chickens Trilussa are useful to remember why in the Italian media do not explain anything. And despite sixty years of extraordinary politics, ordinary reinforced, and just ordinary, unless ordinary, the gap between North and South continues to widen rather than narrow as well as you would like.

The most distant points characterize families with household heads with less than 35 years whose income in the period from 2007 to 2012 fell by 24.8% in the southern regions, while in the northern regions grew by 1.7 percent. One thing that gets worse when you consider that in that particular age group working under Rome only one in two people. To certify the size of the chasm is once again SVIMEZ, Association for the development of industry in the South led by Adriano Giannola and conducted by Riccardo Padovani, with the study “Crisis, work, income: what policies for families” by Elena and Letizia Ravagli Cappellini.

In households headed by older than 35 years things go a bit ‘better. The differences remain, but are not as strong as incomes grow both: 4.6% in the South and 10.5% in the North proving once more that the real crux of the growth in the country is in the condition of youth.

In all cases, to soften the blow we thought the tools of welfare that the government could put in place and which enabled the Italian families to recover 15.6% of the income went up in smoke: to respect trend, with a greater benefit in the North (16.7%) and South (13.2%).

The researchers Svimez ensure that if you were to be adopted in full the intervention measures provided for by reform Fornero (Elsa Fornero, Minister of Labour in the government led by Mario Monti) would have recovered a portion of income much higher than in the South would hit 19.2 percent.

But these calculations facts on paper and otherwise support the need to put in place corrective that are able to accommodate the evolution of Italian society where unfortunately confirms the gradual and steady deterioration of living conditions of the weaker party.

The system of shock absorbers, which in any case has served to reduce the speed of the fall, is conformed to a scaffold classical labor market made largely of loans indefinitely. Exactly what that young people, particularly those in the South, could never meet.

It is therefore necessary to think about a profound change in the way of designing the company and the instruments of its operation because the necessary flexibility, concept in itself positive and encouraging, results in the current spectrum of precariousness. The border is thin and not only psychological in nature.

Here then meet the new times a renewed vision of the objectives and the means to achieve “an afterthought – the study says – of the social protection system in the direction for greater social and territorial cohesion. ” It is the abandonment, in short, of visions and practices that have so far been shown to malfunction.

A remedy that begins to emerge is the dole universal “for all those who lose their jobs” . The coverage could be guaranteed by the funds for the layoffs notwithstanding and however well you can fish in the vast world of finance, largely wasted, for so-called active policies aimed at reintegration with little success.

A delicate and difficult task for the Jobs Act near future.