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Do you want to know what the most popular names among the entrepreneurs who opened a business in Italy in the first eight months of 2015?
You Andrea Hu, Chinese-Italian surname and anecdotal mestizo name, alone, light up much more clearly the phenomenon of foreigners residing in Italy than in a public debate often focuses on emotional and clichs, slogans and buffaloes.
Yet the numbers are there, available, and they say that Italian business now has new faces: the top three most common surnames are Hu, Chen and Singh.
Followed by Rossi, in the company of Wang, Zhang, Hossain.
A whole world in a matter of names, a clue as to what might be the economic contribution to the life of the country of those 5 million and 73 thousand foreign residents in Italy according to Istat.
Recently, the Leone Moressa Foundation has analyzed this phenomenon in detail.
In 2014, the active foreign investors in Italy were 632,142-l'8,3 percent of the total population of entrepreneurs and almost 13 percent of the foreign population resident in Italy.
Between 2009 and 2014, compared with a decline of entrepreneurs born in Italy (down 6.9 percent), foreign ones increased by 21.3 percent.
But according to Enrico Di Pasquale, the Foundation researcher, it is not "stolen work," because "the Foreign entrepreneurship has contributed to the tightness of the system during the crisis."
Affirmation particularly true in regions like Lombardy, Lazio, Emilia Romagna, Tuscany and Veneto.
Most of these entrepreneurs are active in traditional sectors: trade (218 thousand businesses, an increase of 30 percent between 2009 and 2014) and construction (140 thousand, again an increase of 9.4 percent despite the deep crisis in the sector) .
But it is growing fast; even the activities in areas such as business services (21.8 percent), manufacturing (+9.7 percent), accommodation and catering (+ 36 percent), personal services (+ 43.3 percent) and agriculture (14.8 percent).
According to calculations of the Foundation Moressa, the total foreign entrepreneurship added value in Italy amounted to 85.6 billion euro.
Adding to this the number of employees of foreign origin, the total amount of GDP produced by foreigners in Italy amounted to 123 billion euro per year, concentrated in particular in the services and manufacturing.
A figure that is 8.8 percent of the national GDP-in short, nothing but "steal our jobs."
In addition, a recent US study has in fact shown that the integration of a foreign worker in the productive system generates 1.2 new jobs, contributing to an increase of the local economy wages.
A result in addition to the conclusions of the two economists Gianmarco Ottaviano and Giovanni Peri, according cuil'idea that foreign workers compete downwards on the wages of workers in the country of origin is simply false-indeed, the demand for foreign workers is complementary (and not replacement) compared to that of non foreign workers, so that in areas where there is greater integration in the workplace is recorded, thanks to the better specialization of labor, an increase in productivity and therefore of the wages of the workers.
But what kind of jobs are we talking about?
If you asked Andrea Stuppini, representative of the regions in the national immigration Technical Committee.
According to the Office of Confartigianato Studies, 26.7 percent of the labor requirements in professions such as plumbing fixtures, bakers, pastry cooks, masons, remains open despite high youth unemployment.
Often it is foreign to carry out these works, "we find them in fields, yards, clean our homes, caring for our seniors.
In addition they are often underpaid: their income is about 23 percent less than the average income of Italian workers have contracts precarious and often part-time. "
Foreigners accounted for 9.5 percent of the country's workforce, with net salaries of around EUR 900-1000 per month and an average age of about 15 years lower than that of the Italians.
They constitute about one percent of total tax revenue, were raising about one percent public spending in welfare sectors and provide nearly 4 percent of contributions previdenziali- getting for now only a tiny part of the pension. "
For it is thanks to the contribution of foreign workers-says-Stuppini that in recent years the budget of the INPS, the agency that manages pensions, is back in the black.
In total, net tax receipts of foreign workers amounted to 3.9 billion euro a year, as the difference of revenue (16,5miliardi of fees paid annually by foreigners), and outputs the state (12.6 billion euro the 1.57 percent of total public expenditure).
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