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The opinion of Italians on tax evasion
Luigi, Cannari; D'Alessio Giovanni - Banca d'Italia - 2007
In this paper we use data from the Bank of Italy�s Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) to study what Italian households think of tax evasion, and to estimate their propensity to evade taxes. This propensity turns out to be larger for the self-employed than for employees; within the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005111548
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Human capital, technical change and the welfare state
Benabou, Ronald - Banca d'Italia - 2002
I study the interactions between the distribution of human capital, technological choice, and redistributive institutions. I first ask what makes alternative social contracts such as a European-style "welfare state" and US-style "laissez-faire" sustainable, and in particular how each is affected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113533
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Rational ignorance and the public choice of redistribution
Larcinese, Valentino - Banca d'Italia - 2002
explanation for the poor empirical support encountered by political economy models of income redistribution. It shows that … platforms, and vote-seeking political parties should take this into account: as a consequence, redistribution will generally be …, an increase in inequality will not unambigously increase redistribution. Finally, introducing endogenous information may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005467304
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The Distribution of Personal Income in Post-War Italy: Source Description, Date Quality, and the Time Pattern of Income Inequality.
Brandolini, A. - Banca d'Italia - 1999
The paper describes the sample surveys on the personal distribution of incomes conducted in post-war Italy: the first survey carried out by Istituto Doxa in 1947-48; the sample survey of household income and wealth conducted by the Bank of Italy since the late 1960s; the expenditure survey, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005640920
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Universalism vs. particularism: a round trip from sociology to economics
Blasio, Guido de; Scalise, Diego; Sestito, Paolo - Banca d'Italia - 2014
Social scientists, in particular sociologists, claim that the distinction between universalistic and particularistic values is relevant to explaining the social behaviour of individuals (and societies). This paper provides preliminary empirical evidence that supports the claim. It first defines...
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Inequality and trust: new evidence from panel data
Barone, Guglielmo; Mocetti, Sauro - Banca d'Italia - 2014
The relationship between inequality and trust has attracted the interest of many scholars who have found a negative relationship between the two variables. However, the causal link from inequality to trust is far from being identified and the existing empirical evidence admittedly remains weak,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105137
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Values, inequality and happiness
Biancotti, Claudia; D'Alessio, Giovanni - Banca d'Italia - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between inequality and happiness through the lens of heterogeneous values, beliefs and inclinations. Drawing upon opinion data from the European Social Survey for twenty-three countries, we find that individual views on a wide range of themes can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005467308
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On applying synthetic indices of multidimensional well-being: health and income inequalities in selected EU countries
Brandolini, Andrea - Banca d'Italia - 2008
The multidimensional view of well-being is receiving growing attention, both in academic research and policy-oriented analysis. This paper examines empirical strategies to measure poverty and inequality in multiple domains, concentrating on two problems in the use of synthetic multidimensional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005609386
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Wealth and inequality in Italy
D'Alessio, Giovanni - Banca d'Italia - 2012
The paper describes first the evolution in total household wealth in Italy over the period 1965-2010 before addressing the analysis of wealth inequality. On the basis of reconstructed data, we show that household wealth inequality declined until the beginning of the 1990s. It then grew...
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Investors' risk attitude and risky behavior: a Bayesian approach with imperfect information
Iezzi, Stefano - Banca d'Italia - 2008
In a choice model of risky assets the role of risk aversion is analyzed. The measure of risk preference comes from a direct subjective survey question and it is considered as an imperfect information about the true risk attitude of investors. Misclassification between the true and the observed...
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