Italy's 'brain drain' is rising with
increasing numbers of mostly young and highly educated Italians
going abroad, ISTAT said Wednesday.
The number of emigrants rose 4.5% in 2019, the national
statistics agency said.
One in three of them were graduates, ISTAT said.
At the same time, the stats agency said, the number of foreign
immigrants into Italy fell by 7.3%.
Successive governments have sought to reverse the drain by
making the jobs market more efficient and trying to make
research posts more easily available.
But the labour market is stagnant and youth unemployment at
all-time highs, while the lock of so-called 'barons' on
promoting their proteges at universities appears to be as strong
as ever.
News stories regularly feature achievements by young Italian
researchers abroad.
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