Svimez Report: flight from the South, in 10 years 200,000 graduates to the North

In the last 10 years, almost 200,000 young graduates have left the Mezzogiorno for the Centre-North. And 138 thousand have moved from Italy to abroad, according to the Svimez report. Among other factors, this choice is linked, according to the study, to low wages: since 2013, real gross wages per employee have dropped by 4 percentage points in Italy and by twice as much (-8) in the Mezzogiorno, against a growth of 6 points in Germany. The report speaks of "the degeneration and flight of young people", so much so that primary schools are at risk of closure in 3,000 municipalities due to a lack of children, and says: "the emergency is emigration".