Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21306 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1530
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
household confidence
income inequality
poverty
income mobility
JEL: 
D31
I3
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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