In 2017, Italy's government introduced a minimum income scheme, the so-called Income inclusion programme (REI, Reddito di inclusione). REI is a selective, means-tested and conditional scheme that aims at supporting incomes of those more in need. Its structure was recently modified to reach a...

This paper studies differences and determinants of the housing costs and consumer credit burden perceived by households in six European countries, Italy, Germany, Ireland, France, Spain and the United Kingdom, by exploiting information contained in the 2005 EU-SILC database. Burden perception is...

This study develops a micro-founded model to analyse the economic-financial conditions of Italian households. Initially, an indicator is constructed for the base year 2014, which identifies vulnerable households based on the budget constraint and the composition of their financial portfolio....