Household surveys of the distribution of income and expenditure are discussed in this paper. The potential for non-sampling errors, effecting both the mean and measures of dispersion, is noted. These errors are shown to result in substantial discrepancies between the survey data and national...

When poverty is viewed as a matter of degree, i.e. as a fuzzy measure, two additional aspects are introduced into the analysis compared with the conventional poor/non-poor dichotomous approach: (i) the choice of membership functions i.e. quantitative specification of individuals' or households'...

Il presente lavoro costituisce un aggiornamento, per quanto riguarda i soli impatti economici, di una nostra precedente ricerca cofinanziata dalla Regione Toscana e pubblicata nel volume curato da Cheli e Luzzati (2010) La Solvay in Val di Cecina. Ricadute socio-economiche e ambientali di una...