Italy, the UK, and the US, where more noticeable growth of income inequality during the last decade has accompanied changes … Italy Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW), a repeated cross-sectional survey that covers the period 1977-1998, we …

market. We take the case of Italy, a country that experienced changes in the mortgage market brought about by the 1992 … European unification and other institutional shifts. These events make Italy a good laboratory to study the effects of … financial markets on the labor market. Using a simultaneous equation framework and household data from the Bank of Italy between …