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The Age of Discontent: Italian Households at the Beginning of the Decade

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Boeri, Tito () (Bocconi University, CEPR and IZA Bonn)
Brandolini, Andrea (Bank of Italy)

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In the Italian public debate growing attention has been recently paid to “household impoverishment”. Subjective indicators of economic condition show that this concern reflects a common sentiment of the Italian population. On the other hand, estimates based on the Bank of Italy’s Survey of Household Income and Wealth reveal a surprising stability of income distribution in the period 1993-2002, after the sharp widening amid the 1991-92 recession. A number of possible reasons that can account for this apparent inconsistency are investigated: data deficiencies; disappointed expectations; significant distributive changes across socio-economic groups which have cancelled out at the aggregate level; higher income mobility not captured by static inequality indices.

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Keywords: household confidence; income inequality; poverty; income mobility;

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D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty

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