This paper describes the composition and distribution of household wealth in Italy. First, the evolution of household … characteristics and quality of the main statistical source on wealth distribution, the Bank of Italy�s Survey of Household Income …-reporting. The distribution of household net worth is then studied using both adjusted and unadjusted data. Wealth inequality is …

importance should decrease with wealth. I test these theoretical predictions for the Italian case, using the Survey of Household … Income and Wealth. The evidence is that household's initial wealth is indeed important in the decision to become an … model. Finally, conditional on becoming entrepreneurs, initial household wealth does not significantly affect the size of …

The paper presents the main results of the Eurosystem�s Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) with an … reveal a mean household gross income below the euro-area average. The concentration of income in Italy is roughly positioned …

The Survey on Household Income and Wealth, conducted every two years by the Bank of Italy, and the Italian Financial … Accounts, published quarterly, provide information on the wealth of Italian households which are independent and, for the time …