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. …

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 …

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 … vary from 5 to 14 per cent, probably owing to a greater asymmetry in the distribution of wealth. …