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or, as usually happens, being "documented" have become more and more difficult, so the number of undocumented workers has gone up as a consequence.
also, immigrants are replacing those workers who are not willing to do the job most of the time.
it's not unusual everywhere you go in the west to witness that a large portion of construction workers are immigrants.
Here in Italy it's mostly people from Romania, North Africa and other eastern European Countries.
Virtually no Italian wants to be a mason anymore.
They rather prefer to work for app-based tech companies (Glovo and such).
And don't underestimate bureaucracy.
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or, as usually happens, being "documented" have become more and more difficult, so the number of undocumented workers has gone up as a consequence.
also, immigrants are replacing those workers who are not willing to do the job most of the time.
it's not unusual everywhere you go in the west to witness that a large portion of construction workers are immigrants.
Here in Italy it's mostly people from Romania, North Africa and other eastern European Countries.
Virtually no Italian wants to be a mason anymore.
They rather prefer to work for app-based tech companies (Glovo and such).
And don't underestimate bureaucracy.