According to our study, in the EU-15 income inequality among citizens decreased remarkably in the 1957-2006 period; the Gini coefficient dropped by nearly 26%. The estimates of the European income distribution and the inequality measures we compute are based on the kernel of kernels method...

The Bank of Italy's Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) is widely used to study the economic behavior of Italian households. Like most similar surveys, the SHIW is biased downward in its estimates by the lesser propensity of wealthy families to participate and by the tendency to...