Economic and demographic factors are key determinants of health status in old age. Although,in recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the evaluation of the relationships between these factors and individual health status in Italy, limited attention has been devoted to the link...

This paper aims to show to what extent self-perceived poverty in Europe is associated with specific household socioeconomic characteristics and particular aspects of household/ community social capital endowment in order to disclose the primary risk factors of family poverty status. Such...

The debate on the measurement of income, poverty and social exclusion in Europe has increased significantly in recent years. Poverty is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon and, according to the definition used, various measures to assess poverty are calculated and different poverty sizes...