Italy: unemployment benefits 2018-2022

In 2022, 2.56 million people benefitted from unemployment insurance in Italy. In 2020 and 2021, the government enacted a layoff ban for securing employees against the labor crisis brought in by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, this prohibition was lifted in 2022, and the number of unemployment insurance recipients significantly increased. Two million employees and 530,000 agricultural workers benefitted from the unemployment allowance. The beneficiaries of the allowance for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers were only 21,000.

Number of people who benefitted from unemployment insurance in Italy from 2018 to 2022, by type of benefit

Characteristic	Allowance for employees (NASPI)	Allowance for agricultural workers	Allowance for collaboratori coordinati e continuativi*, PhD students, and postdoctoral researchers (DIS-COLL)
2018	1,850,405	553,884	14,644
2019	1,848,662	551,176	15,826
2020	1,763,461	556,261	20,305
2021	1,682,260	556,471	16,739
2022	2,010,954	532,090	21,286

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Release date

November 2023

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Italy

Survey time period

2018 to 2022

Supplementary notes

* The "collaborazione coordinata e continuativa" (i.e., coordinated and continuous collaboration) contract (CO-CO-CO) is an employment condition specific of the Italian labor law. It does not establish a subordinate relationship between employer and employee. Nevertheless, the self-employed perform their duties under conditions similar to those of wage labor, such as a long-term collaboration with the employer, and they have to coordinate their work following the company's core business. However, they are autonomous in the choice of the workplace and working time.

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