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Pension Policy and Poverty in Italy: Recent Developments and New Priorities

Franco, Daniele; Marino, Maria Rosaria; Tommasino, Pietro - In: Giornale degli Economisti 67 (2008) 2, pp. 119-160

Household Income and Wealth (SHIW), we document that the incidence and intensity of poverty among pensioners in Italy are far … characteristics. Some groups present high poverty risks. Moreover, the pension reforms implemented since 1992 will curb the benefits … such cohorts the poverty risk after retirement has sharply risen. Changes in the social insurance pension schemes can …

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A Measure of Welfare Based on Permanent Income Hypothesis: An Application on Italian Households Budgets

Massari, Riccardo - In: Giornale degli Economisti 64 (2005) 1, pp. 55-92

The measurement of the actual household welfare is possibly the main problem in welfare analysis. Since welfare is not directly observable, researchers have to find a proxy to measure it. The aim of this work is to find a measure of welfare based on cross-sectional data. The measure proposed is...

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Being Homeless: Evidence from Italy

Braga, M.; Corno, L. - In: Giornale degli Economisti 70 (2011) 3, pp. 33-73

Homelessness represents the most extreme form of poverty in industrialized countries and a critical consequence of …

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Inequality of educational opportunity in Italy:how fair is the “3+2" reform?

Brunori, Paolo; Peragine, Vito; Serlenga, Laura - In: Giornale degli Economisti 70 (2011) 1, pp. 65-95

In this paper we propose a de_nition of fairness in education which is based onthe theory of equality of opportunity developed in the last decades in the philosophical and economic literature (Roemer,1998; Fleurbaey, 2008), we derive opportunity inequality measures based on such conceptual...

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The Redistributive Effects of the Pit Decentralization: Evidence from the Italian Case

Monteduro, Maria Teresa; Zanardi, Alberto - In: Giornale degli Economisti 64 (2005) 2-3, pp. 215-246

In recent years Regions and Municipalities in Italy have been assigned the power to apply local surtaxes on the personal income tax levied at national level. The aim of this paper is twofold. First, from a positive perspective, we measure the redistributive effects produced by the adoption of...

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Workers' Tax Evasion in Italy

Fiorio, Carlo V; D'Amuri, Francesco - In: Giornale degli Economisti 64 (2005) 2-3, pp. 247-270

We apply a direct method to estimate tax evasion in Italy, assuming that tax evaders might consider declaring a closer-to-true income in an anonymous interview. The methodology is applied to employed and self-employed taxpayers, combining the Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) by the...

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The Age of Discontent: Italian Households at the Beginning of the Decade

Boeri, Tito; Brandolini, Andrea - In: Giornale degli Economisti 63 (2004) 3-4, pp. 449-487

In the Italian public debate growing attention has been recently paid to “household impoverishment”. Subjective indicators of economic condition show that this concern reflects a common sentiment of the Italian population. On the other hand, estimates based on the Bank of Italy’s Survey of...

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Implementing a Guaranteed Minimum Income in Italy: An Empirical Analysis of Costs and Political Feasibility

Monti, Paola; Pellizzari, Michele - In: Giornale degli Economisti 69 (2010) 1, pp. 67-100

In this paper we analyse a hypothetical welfare reform that would introduce a Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) in Italy, the only country of the pre-enlargement EU-15 where a programme of this type does not exist. First we compute the overall cost of a GMI under different assumptions about its...

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