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 …

1983 Survey of Consumer Finance (SCF). The SCF is the first data set to provide detailed information on both household … added to household balance sheets. Using a variety of methods and assumptions, the distribution becomes more equal when the …