Migration in Italy is backing the old age welfare

Abstract

Immigration in Italy became sizable at the end of the 1980s, with initial inflows from the Mediterranean countries, together with the Philippines, Latin America and some Sub-Saharan countries (including Senegal and Ghana). In the 1990s, following the dissolution of the socialist block and URSS, inflows increased at a higher pace, and the composition also changed with migrants coming from Albania and the other Eastern European countries. Poland was an early contributor, later replaced by Romania, Ukraine and Moldova.