Poverty is generally defined as income or expenditure insufficiency, but the economic condition of a household also … household net worth. We review and assess two main approaches followed in the literature: income-net worth measures and asset …

This paper aims to describe non-respondents in the Bank of Italy�s Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) and … to measure the underestimation of income and wealth attributable to non-response. The evidence confirms that non … (the adjusted estimates are from 15 to 31 per cent higher than the unadjusted) than for income (for which the adjustments …

The paper reconstructs the items of the regional accounts, disposable income and wealth of the household sector for the …

selection we estimate the impact of income shocks on the probability of recording a delinquency. We find that since 2008 the …

workers, and economic disadvantages in terms of household income and wealth. We show that the instability of women�s work … income households; the chances of further childbirth are significantly and negatively affected by household income insecurity …

In this paper we examine credit market participation and financial vulnerability by income, making use of a large …, mainly as a result of slower debt repayment. Developments differed across income classes: the new borrowers were mainly … concentrated in higher income classes, while the slowdown in debt repayment was more pronounced for the middle and lower income …