In the setting of chronic aging in Italy, at least 280 thousand additional immigrants from abroad would be required each year until 2050 to compensate for the reduction in working-age population (-7.8 million by 2050). Nonetheless, the country's obstinate closure policies against migrants have effectively restricted their entry channels for work for the past 12 years, fuelling the labor shortage in critical areas of the national economy and undermining their contribution to the country's demographic stability. This is according to a preview of the IDOS Study and Research Center's 2023 Immigration Statistical Dossier, which will be presented on October 26.
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