consistent results, in terms of both inequality measures and poverty rates. To the extent that the results differ, we explore the …

In this paper we investigate the determinants of poverty transitions in Italy, using the EU-SILC panel survey (2007 …-2010). Our findings show that education and employment play a key role in preventing poverty, and ease poverty exits. Moreover …, the presence of children and a new birth hamper household poverty exits. However, poverty transitions are also state …

This paper analyses poverty persistence in Italy and compares it with France, Greece, Portugal, Spain and the United … Kingdom, focusing on its dynamics through the analysis of transitions into and out of poverty and the econometric …-2012. Descriptive statistics and transition matrices reveal that households in Italy are characterised by a higher degree of poverty …

the emergence of fuel poverty in Italy in the period from 1998 to 2011. The paper examines the eligibility criteria for … with the population actually living in fuel poverty. A simulation exercise, using the hypothetical scenario most likely to … state energy benefits has little impact on fuel poverty …

We propose an analysis of the persistent at risk of poverty (PARP) rate in Italy at the beginning of the Great … results, male employees are more likely to hamper persistent poverty for their households; the opposite holds true for women … as family breadwinner. Human capital endowment also shows a relevant role in preventing persistent poverty. The presence …

the national level, the local level is in focus to illuminate differences between municipalities. Studies on poverty are … no exception. The regional level contains a lot of information which is needed to understand the dynamics of poverty …. Without this information it is difficult to fight or mitigate poverty. The previous research focusing on i) regional aspects …

This paper evaluates poverty sensitivity to growth in mean incomes and distributional changes in Italy across its … Italy to estimate the growth incidence curves and the income and inequality elasticities of poverty. Growth strongly … determines the patterns of poverty; however, inequality appears to have strikingly characterized it as well. A 1% increase in …

model, to measure the effects of the RdC in terms of inequality reduction and, as a novel contribution, of absolute poverty … reducing inequality, and attenuating the incidence, and even more so the intensity, of absolute poverty. We also document how …