And the Lombardy there region that offers young people the best conditions to work and for do business. They follow a short distance away Piedmont, Veneto, Emilia-Romagna and Trentino Alto Adige. ‘Black jersey’, however, in Molise, together with Sardinia, Calabria, Sicily and Basilicata.
To draw up the ranking of regions and provinces ‘friends’ of the new generations is the relationship of Confcraftsmanship which contains the Index of youth-friendly territories for business and work and which was presented at the annual Convention of Young Entrepreneurs of Confartigianato organized today in Rome.
The Confartigianato Index measures habitat conditions on the basis of 13 indicators which include, among others, the employment rate under 35the presence of young entrepreneurs, the school-business collaborationthe spread of apprenticeship, the migratory balance of young people abroad or other regions.
TO provincial levelyoung people find the most fertile ground a Wedgefollowed by Bergamo, Vicenza, Lecco and Treviso. At the other end of the ranking, the most difficult conditions for employment and young people’s desire to do business are found at Isernia, Foggia, Vibo Valentia, Syracuse, Taranto.
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This ‘Italy at different speeds’ for the environment that surrounds young people on the one hand favors the activity of 522,086 companies led by under 35son the other hand, it is at the origin of our negative record in Europe. According to the Confartigianato report, in fact, in 2022 we were the country with the highest number of young people between 25 and 34 who do not offer themselves on the job market: as many as 1,568,000, with an inactivity rate of 25.4%, compared to 15% of the European average. Germany registers 13.9%, Spain 13.7% and France 12.7%.
The phenomenon has worsened given that the inactivity rate of young Italians has increased by 3.4 points compared to the 21.9% recorded in 2004.
Among the under 35s who are not looking for work, women prevail, equal to 1,033,000 (65.9% of the total), compared to 535,000 men. 55.6% of inactive young people are concentrated in the Southwhere the rate rises to 37.7%, more than double the 16.8% in the Center and North.
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Among the inactive people between the ages of 25 and 39, there are 468,100 with a university degree. Of these, two-thirds are women. “Young people – he underlines Davide Peli, President of the Young Entrepreneurs of Confartigianato – are the future of made in Italy. But 1.6 million under 35s out of the labor market represent an absurd ‘waste’, a real emergency to be tackled quickly. May the European Year of Skills be an opportunity for real change, leveraging trainingon a new and intense relationship between school and businesses to transmit ‘know-how’, on measures to support business creation and the generational transition in the company”.
