Municipal Councils. Despite the existence of gender-specific preferences in society, we find no clear evidence that the amount … of resources distributed among different spending categories is significantly affected by politicians� gender. The … Italian law that reserved a gender quota in party lists for municipal elections, thus causing an exogenous increase in the …

of the processes generating income, social security wealth, retirement and consumption behaviour of households, and … per household and, above all, the decline in the ratio of social security wealth of households to disposable income as the …

their impact on the analysis of Italian households' mobility across the wealth distribution in the 1989-2004 period. The … increasing difficulty in measuring household wealth (which results in an increase of response errors). Measurement issues appear …

The paper describes first the evolution in total household wealth in Italy over the period 1965-2010 before addressing … the analysis of wealth inequality. On the basis of reconstructed data, we show that household wealth inequality declined … afterwards. By international standards, Italy does not have a high level of wealth inequality (contrary to the evidence available …

-poverty. We provide fresh cross-national evidence based on data from the Luxembourg Wealth Study. …