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 …

negative correlation between social capital and inequality. This chapter provides some empirical findings on Italy that confirm …

. Using micro data from the Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) conducted by the Bank of Italy over the period 1991 …

This paper examines the retirement decisions of Italian households using data from the Survey on Household Income and …

, coherent and consistent distributional information for the household sector. In the Euro area, most of the national central …

The paper, using data from the Bank of Italy's Survey of Household Income and Wealth, estimates the intrahousehold … are far greater than those calculated on household wealth or per capita wealth, which shares wealth equally among … household members. The trend in concentration indices, however, does not significantly change. Some regressions suggest that the …

Italy, the paper reconstructs synthetic microdata compatible with the aggregate results of sample surveys carried out in …, making an intertemporal comparison of the estimates possible. The concentration of household wealth shows a downward trend in …

-employed. Recourse to consumer credit remained stable; it increased for low-income households. Household debt sustainability, measured by …

effect on these types of household. Interest rate increases for different groups of household have been fairly similar …

reveal a mean household gross income below the euro-area average. The concentration of income in Italy is roughly positioned …The paper presents the main results of the Eurosystem's Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) with an … emphasis on the data for Italy in the international context. The paper examines households' socio-demographic characteristics …