The paper describes first the evolution in total household wealth in Italy over the period 1965-2010 before addressing … afterwards. By international standards, Italy does not have a high level of wealth inequality (contrary to the evidence available … the analysis of wealth inequality. On the basis of reconstructed data, we show that household wealth inequality declined …

This paper investigates trends in Italian households' saving and wealth in the last twenty years, with a special … Survey on Household Income and Wealth (1991-2010. The crisis has intensified the trends already under way, as confirmed by … people and tenants. Overall inequality in wealth distribution has increased. Poverty indicators based on income and wealth …

We study the distribution of housing wealth in Italy using data from a sample survey (the survey on household income … and wealth) and from administrative records regarding real estate owners held by the Italian Department of the Treasury … adjusting survey data using the information from the administrative records, average housing wealth increases by some 25 per …

The design of the Bank of Italy’s Survey on Household Income and Wealth was revised in 2020 to reduce non …-sampling error in households’ income and wealth and improve data quality. The new sample allocation resulted in greater participation … wealth estimators. However, the revision of the sample makes it difficult to compare the results with those obtained in …

This paper analyses aggregate household wealth in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, the UK and the US … real assets. In discussing the empirical evidence, the paper summarises some of the recent literature on household wealth …

Wealth (SHIW) for 2008. The analysis focuses on the adequacy of pension wealth, knowledge of supplementary retirement rules …, the determinants of enrollment decisions and workers' propensity to convert their wealth into an annuity at retirement …. The results indicate that pension wealth is inadequate for a substantial part of the Italian population. Moreover, workers …

The Bank of Italy's Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) is widely used to study the economic behavior of … wealthy families to participate and by the tendency to underreport income and wealth. This work assesses the various …

In the Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) conducted by the Bank of Italy, the flow variables (income and … consumption) refer to the year preceding the interview while the stock variables (household composition and net wealth) refer to … estimates of household income and wealth and propose an adjustment method …

households' financial wealth. The paper finds that both insurance companies and private pensions still account for a small share …