An INPS study on pensions paid abroad dismantles a number of clichés about crowds of retirees who would leave Italy to move to exotic places, lured by better tax treatment. “First,” writes L'Economia dossier for the paper Corriere della Sera, “the numbers say that very few retirees are leaving our country, 3,110 in 2023 compared to the total number of elderly people. Second, they do not do it so much for economic reasons, but more trivially to rejoin their children who have moved abroad - this is a relevant phenomenon - in order to have a job and an adequate salary and perhaps have given birth to children”. "It has been 13 years," recalls the institute led by Gabriele Fava, "that the INPS has begun monitoring this matter. If pensions paid abroad to Italians, while remaining by far the largest portion, are decreasing as the people who in mass postwar migrated to the Americas, Australia, Belgium, France, and Germany disappear, new trends are now emerging: the payment of pensions to foreigners who have worked in Italy and are returning to their countries of origin. These include the profound revolution that new technologies have brought to work and leisure management. From 2016 to 2023," it says, "pensions paid abroad dropped by 17%, from 373,000 to 310,000. In particular, in the last 5 years, those paid in South America where there has been a strong emigration of Italians in the past (Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil) have dropped by 31.2%, those in North America (United States and Canada) by 19.4%, and those in Australia by 19.1%. Those paid in Asia (many Filipinos returning home) and Africa are also on the rise.