By irregularity rate, region 6th in Italy: the annual added value estimated at 647 million euros
The annual turnover attributable to irregular work in Italy amounts to 68 billion euros: approximately 35 percent of this added value produced by the underground economy is attributable to the regions of the South. This is one of the passages that emerged from an analysis conducted by the Research Office of the Cgia of Mestre which reports that the people involved in the underground economy in Italy are just under 3 million. Also in this case “the South is the geographical division of the country that presents the highest percentage: that is, 37.2 percent of the total”. However, as highlighted in the report, the phenomenon has now also extended to the Center-North and has a record presence especially in the sector of services to people, housekeepers, carers and so on. The rate of irregularity in this sector reaches 42.6 percent. In second place we see agriculture with 16.8 percent and in third place construction with 13.3 percent. The irregular workers in Basilicata, the data refer to 2021, are 27 thousand and 300 with an irregularity rate of 13.3 percent, or 2 points higher than the national average (the average Italian figure is 11.3 percent) and second only to those recorded by Calabria (19.6%), Campania (16.5%), Sicily (16%), Puglia (14.4%) and Sardinia (13.6%). The incidence of the added value produced by undeclared work compared to the total is 5.4%, also in this case higher, by about 1 point, compared to the Italian average. The added value of irregular work in Basilicata, was estimated at 647 million euros. The added value produced in 2021 by irregular work in Italy was equal to 68 billion euros, of which 23.7 billion in the South, 17.3 in the Northwest, 14.5 in the Center and 12.4 in the Northeast. Measuring the percentage incidence of this amount on the total regional added value, the highest share, equal to 8.3 percent, concerns Calabria. Campania follows with 6.9 percent, Sicily with 6.6 percent and Puglia with 6.2 percent. The national average is 4.2 percent. Of the 2 million 848 thousand and 100 irregular workers estimated in Italy by Istat, over 1 million are located in the South, 691,300 in the Northwest, 630,000 in the Center and 464,900 in the Northeast.
