The annual turnover attributable to irregular work in Italy amounts to approximately 68 billion euros. This is stated in a study, based on Istat data, by Cgia di Mestre, according to which approximately 35% of this added value produced by the underground economy can be ascribed to the regions of the South.
A system, estimates the CGIA, which involves just under 3 million people in the country; also in this case, the South is the geographical distribution that presents the highest percentage, 37.2% of the total.
However, the phenomenon is also widespread in the Centre-North and has a record presence especially in the personal services sector (housekeepers, carers). The irregularity rate in this sector reaches 42.6%. In second place are agricultural jobs (16.8%), in third place are constructions with 13.3%.
Those just mentioned are some flashes that emerged from an analysis conducted by the CGIA Research Office.
The regions in which the CGIA estimates a greater presence of the underground economy are Calabria, Campania and Sicily. The added value produced in 2021 by irregular work in Italy amounted to 68 billion euros, of which 23.7 billion in the South, 17.3 in the North-West, 14.5 in the Center and 12.4 in the North-East.
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