Around 5.7 million employees earn on average less than 11 thousand euros gross per year.
This is what a study by the Economics Office of the Development Policy Area of the National CGIL finds, in which the causes of low wages in Italy are analysed, starting from work discontinuity, part-time work and contractual precariousness.
The study explains that from the comparison between the major economies of the Eurozone (OECD data) it emerges that in 2022 the average salary in Italy stood at 31.5 thousand euros gross per year, a significantly lower level than those in Germany (45.5 thousand) and French (41.7 thousand).
A greater share of unskilled professions, the high incidence of involuntary part-time work (57.9%, the highest in the entire Eurozone) and fixed-term work (16.9%) with a strong work discontinuity.
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