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17 November 2019 In Italy, almost six out of 10 graduates (59.8%) are employed three years after graduation. A percentage up by ten points compared to 2014, but still very far from the European average, which reached 83.5%.



This is the picture resulting from the latest Eurostat statistics for 2018, just published, according to which the situation of graduates is worse only in Greece.



Situation that is even more difficult in our country for those with only a diploma, with just 48.9% of young people working three years after the title. Here too, a figure up 12 points from 2014 but a long way off the average 76.5% in Europe.



Among the Italian regions, Calabria is last with only 29.1% of graduates who find work 3 years after the end of their studies. The Greek region of Sterea Ellada does little better (34.4%). In Lower Bavaria the percentage is 98.3%.



The Italian fork


In Italy, looking at the percentages of employed three years after graduation (therefore also considering the first year after the end of studies), the fork between the various regions is very wide with Veneto with a percentage of employed three years after reaching of the stock of 75% while Calabria stops at 29.1% and Sicily at 30.1%, down compared to 2017. The situation is even more difficult for work in the Southern regions if you have only the high school diploma.



Within three years from the end of their studies, 48.9% of graduates are employed in Italy compared to 76.5% of the European average. But if in Germany on average within three years 90.3% of young people graduating in Sicily have found work, only one in five people are employed (22.2%, with a decrease from 25.8% in 2017) while in Calabria they are 28.6%.



The gap of women


For the girls then in the South it is a real tragedy, with just 16.8% of young Sicilians working within three years of graduating from high school compared to 85.3% in the province of Bolzano and 43 , 6% on average in Italy. In Germany the average is 88.3% with regional peaks above 90%.



For women graduates, the lowest percentage of those who are employed three years after the title is in Calabria with just 21.6% (down on 2017) while in Sicily they are 29.1%. For European women graduates, the average employed three years after graduation is 82.1% while for Italy it is 58.1%, with the province of Bolzano at 82.6%, Veneto at 76, 2%, Lombardy at 72.9% and Campania at 42%.