This paper describes the composition and distribution of household wealth in Italy. First, the evolution of household … characteristics and quality of the main statistical source on wealth distribution, the Bank of Italy's Survey of Household Income and … determining this path. -- household wealth ; wealth inequality ; Italy …

response (or measurement) errors. In the case of Italy, the declining level of observed mobility is downward biased by the … increasing difficulty in measuring household wealth (which results in an increase of response errors). Measurement issues appear …

The paper describes first the evolution in total household wealth in Italy over the period 1965-2010 before addressing … the analysis of wealth inequality. On the basis of reconstructed data, we show that household wealth inequality declined … afterwards. By international standards, Italy does not have a high level of wealth inequality (contrary to the evidence available …