At least 52 thousand euros is the cost that the State had to pay for each job obtained through the Citizenship Income. An exorbitant figure, more than double what a private entrepreneur spends annually for a full-time permanent worker which, on average, costs him around 25,000 euros.
From the results of the analysis carried out by the Studies Office of the CGIA of Mestre, it is estimated, in fact, that for all holders of the Citizenship Income – therefore people in economic difficulty who had expressed their willingness to go to the office or factory – the INPS has incurred a total expenditure of 7.9 billion euros.
Out of over a million assistants, however, only 152,000 people have found a job thanks to the “navigators”.
If it is calculated that the sum of economic support was supported on average for at least a year before the assisted persons entered the labor market – thus receiving approximately 7,000 euros each – the figure reaches more than 52,000 euros for each single new employee.
“A cost – comments the research office – that appears excessive for such a limited number of people who have entered the labor market”. According to the CGIA “whoever is in economic difficulty must absolutely be helped, but to fight unemployment the RdC has proved not to be an effective tool”.
The Agency, in fact, estimates that the probability of being unemployed after 12 months is close to 90%. These difficulties are also motivated by the fact that most of the applicants do not have previous work experience, capable of guaranteeing them a job. Analyzing the contribution history of these people, in the age group between 18 and 64, it emerges that only a third of these have already had a job in the past. We are faced with subjects at high risk of social exclusion, in conditions of economic poverty and severe material deprivation. Finding a job for these people, explains the CGIA, “could even be a problem for them, due to the precarious psycho-physical balance in which they live”.
The data at the provincial level say that in the provinces of Caserta (147,036) and Naples (555,646) there are a total of almost 703,000 beneficiaries of the RdC, 20% of the total recipients of this measure. Equally significant is the number of RdCs provided by INPS in large metropolitan areas: in Rome they are 240,065, in Palermo 212,544, in Catania 169,250, in Milan 122,873, in Turin 104,638 and in Bari 92,233.