Poverty risk in Italy: self-employed workers most affected

Among families headed by a self-employed worker, the risk of poverty or social exclusion is 22.7%, while the share referring to families with an employee at the head of the household is lower and equal to 14.8%. The CGIA takes over it. If in recent decades there has been a progressive decline in the purchasing power of wages that has pushed many workers/employees with low levels of contractual framework to the area of poverty, the self-employed …