The paper compares Italian and American households� wealth in 1998. The analysis is based on the Survey on Household Income and Wealth (Bank of Italy) and on the Survey of Consumer Finances (Federal Reserve Board). Tangible assets appear to be the main wealth component in both countries. In...

Italian Abstract: Le indagini sul reddito e la ricchezza delle famiglie vengono in genere realizzate attraverso interviste personali. Negli ultimi anni è aumentata la diffusione di indagini che utilizzano Internet come strumento di rilevazione, sia per motivi economici sia per la rapidità con...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro descrive l'evoluzione dell'indagine sui bilanci delle famiglie dalla sua origine nei primi anni sessanta fino ad oggi, illustrando in che modo le innovazioni che si sono susseguite nel corso del tempo hanno consentito di migliorare la qualità dei dati raccolti e...

The paper analyses the static and dynamic risk of poverty in the enlarged European Union. In the first part of the paper an overview of cross-sectional poverty rates in 25 European Member States (apart from Romania and Bulgaria) using several indexes is presented and assessed. In the second...

The poverty line, which has been set by the World Bank in 1990 at 1.08USD/day PPA contains three major errors: it does not refer to a clear definition of poverty; it uses wrong PPA factors converting national poverty lines and it is based on limited data from two countries with the highest...

We construct a detailed dataset, base on National Accounts, from 1991 to 2012, and the Bank of Italy survey on households in 2010, to measure the global tax burden on households consumer in Italy, distinguishing between direct, indirect taxes and social contributions. Global tax burden is...

The aim of this paper is the analysis of vulnerability within families in nine regions of Italy and represents the second part of a research on regional inequalities in income distribution. Poverty tends to be a multi-dimensional concept and the use of monetary income as a single measure of...