Indicator history

In the Italian labour market the difference between the unemployment rate of Italian workers and migrants ones is particularly evident. In the first quarter of 2010, as reported by the Istat (National Statistic Institute) Survey on Workforce,  the unemployment rates among foreigners is 13% and among Italy’soverall population is 9,2%.
Unemployment rates point out growing occupational difficulties among the foreign population. This worsening affects both the male component – among which the incidence of unemployment in the considered threeyear period, that is to say, between the 1st quarter of 2007 and the 1st quarter of 2010, virtually doubled reaching 12 per cent – and the female component – which though starting from a comparatively more disadvantageous condition, reported again a negative differential by more than two per cent points compared to males. At the same time, the gap between the rates referring to migrants and the overall ones, continued to grow, reaching almost four per cent points both among men and among women. Regardless of other specific elements pertaining to the economic situation, these data move Italy towards a recurring situation in almost all immigration countries, which report a penalization of the population with a migratory background, and a twofold penalization of the female component.
 

Sources:

Fondazione ISmu, The Sixteenth Italian Report on Migrations 2010, McGraw-Hill, Milan, 2011.