@techreport{Boeri2005Discontent,
abstract = {In the Italian public debate growing attention has been recently paid to ?household
impoverishment?. Subjective indicators of economic condition show that this concern reflects
a common sentiment of the Italian population. On the other hand, estimates based on the
Bank of Italy?s Survey of Household Income and Wealth reveal a surprising stability of
income distribution in the period 1993-2002, after the sharp widening amid the 1991-92
recession. A number of possible reasons that can account for this apparent inconsistency are
investigated: data deficiencies; disappointed expectations; significant distributive changes
across socio-economic groups which have cancelled out at the aggregate level; higher
income mobility not captured by static inequality indices.},
author = {Tito Boeri and Andrea Brandolini},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {D31; I3; 330; household confidence; income inequality; poverty; income mobility; Lebensstandard; Privater Haushalt; Haushaltseinkommen; Einkommensverteilung; Armut; Italien},
language = {eng},
number = {1530},
title = {The Age of Discontent: Italian Households at the Beginning of the Decade},
type = {IZA Discussion paper series},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/21306},
year = {2005}
}
