OECD: Italy fourth for long-term unemployed. Grows the scissors … – The Republic

MILAN – The unemployed who are struggling to fit in the space of work, crisis clubbing and income gap between those who are good and evil that has been extended. It is not the rosy picture that the OECD has taken to Italy.
Out of work. Italy is the fourth country in the OECD area by percentage of long-term unemployed (ie, People who do not work for a year or more) of the total unemployed. It is learned from the report on Italy and falling in the series ‘Oecd360′, which deals with the various monographs area economy. From 2007 to 2013, the share of long-term unemployed to total unemployed in our country has risen from 45% to nearly 60%, a percentage surpassed only by Ireland, Greece and Slovakia, bringing up the rear with a reading above 70% . On the other side of the ranking is South Korea, where the phenomenon of long-term unemployment would be, according to figures, almost non-existent.

Tax. In Italy tax revenues in 2011 amounted to about 950 billion dollars at current values, more than twice the OECD average, totaling just over $ 400 billion. Italian voice in tax revenues is mainly composed of contributions for social security (31.2%), followed by income tax and profits (26.8%) and taxes on goods and services (26.1%), who are the main source of revenue in the OECD average, with 32.9% (following the contributions to social security to 26.2% and taxes on income and gains to 24.4%).

Rich and poor. Despite an adjusted disposable income per capita of households, amounting to $ 24,724 a year, is higher than the OECD average ($ 23,938 a year), in Italy “c ‘is a significant gap between the richest and the poorest, “the report said. “The richest 20% of the population”, the report says, “earns almost six times more than the poorest 20%.”

Families. In 2012, the debt Italian households rose to 94.2% of disposable income, a dramatic upsurge since 2000, when the figure stood at just below 60%. Simultaneously, adds the organization of Paris, there has been a sharp drop in household savings, which fell to 3.6% of disposable income in 2012, compared with about 10% in 2006.

Life-work. Italian women have difficulty in balancing family and work, says the OECD. “58% of the Italian population aged 15 to 64 have a paid job, which is below the OECD average of 65%,” the report said, “the men are occupied about 68%, while women 48%; This difference indicates that women have difficulties in combining work and family. “

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