In support, they cited the «brutal»
economic statistics facing law graduates, including the fact that the unemployment rate nine months after graduation for the class of 2013 was 11.2 %.
In Italy, however, despite
facing the same problem of a declining population — in 2014, only 509,000 live births were recorded, the lowest number since the unification of Italy in 1861, according to the country's
statistics agency, ISTAT — the broader
economic backdrop is the source of reluctance.