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 …

Information from the Survey of Italian Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) is not normally used as a basis for regional … results confirm the traditional scenario: northern and central regions show greater average values for both income and wealth … equivalent income and a distributional index, the gap between southern regions and northern and central ones grows even larger …

the OECD countries. We have particularly in mind the user of income inequality statistics who does not wish to go back to …

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 …