In the Italian public debate growing attention has been recently paid to household impoverishmentʺ. Subjective …, estimates based on the Bank of Italy's Survey of Household Income and Wealth reveal a surprising stability of income …

Poverty increased in Italy during 1993, both in incidence and intensity. This study focuses on the changes which have … taken place after the crisis. The data set used is the Bank of Italy Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW), and … poverty is defined in terms of disposable income. A descriptive analysis which uses intensity and incidence indices is …

In this paper, we evaluate income distributions in four European countries (Austria, Italy, Spain and Hungary) using … consistent results, in terms of both inequality measures and poverty rates. To the extent that the results differ, we explore the …