We link tax returns across two generations to provide the first estimate of intergenerational mobility in Italy based … on administrative income data. Italy emerges as less immobile than previously depicted by studies using proxies for …. Provinces in Northern Italy, the richest area of the country, display levels three times as large as those in the South. This …

In this paper we describe a novel source of data on the full record of inheritance tax files in Italy, covering up to … economy, the weight of inheritance and gifts in Italy appears relatively high by international standards. Over the same period …