Emilio Reyneri, a professor emeritus of labor sociology in the Department of Social Research and Sociology at the University of Milan Bicocca, said that because of other demographic trends in themselves problematic for Italy, the youth unemployment problem is not as bad as it would otherwise be.
"Italy's birthrate is among the lowest in the world, and that means there are fewer people under the age of 25 than one would expect in a country as large as Italy," Reyneri said in an interview.
Reyneri said unemployment figures are also tempered by a trend of many of the brightest young people leaving the country to find work, keeping their names off the unemployment rolls.
"Within Europe, Italy is a net exporter of young college graduates and a net importer of older laborers," Reyneri said.
Neither Reyneri nor Leonardi said that university education is a negative in and of itself. But Leonardi called for the country's education system needs to be reformed.
"I do think our university education system is too focused on academics and theory and too little on the practical side," Leonardi said. "The manufacturing sector in Italy is still strong, the second strongest in the European Union, following Germany."
He went on: "Companies say there are as many as 200,000 technical jobs to be filled and too few qualified workers at the same time many college graduates are unemployed and living with their parents," Leonardi said.
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