Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/71505 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
IFS Working Papers No. 01/13
Publisher: 
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
Abstract: 
This study investigates the pattern of poverty in Italy in the 1980s and the 1990s, by means of both eonsumption and ineome measures, so as to separate the permanent and temporary eomponents. The empirie al analysis we eonduet addresses not only eeonomie issues, but also those of survey methodology and reliability of data. The model for the study of poverty is inspired by the literat ure on measurement error, and allows us not only to identify the two eomponents but also to test if the varianees of the shoeks vary along the distributions of ineome and eonsumption. We find a slight inerease of the transitory eomponent, whereas the permanent one remains eonstant over the two decades. There is some evidenee of noneonstancy of the varianees of the shocks, and a more precise formal test is under development.
Subjects: 
Income and consumption poverty
measurement error
permanent and transitory shocks
JEL: 
D12
D31
I32
J31
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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