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Income Inequality in Italy: Tendencies and Policy Implications

In: Italy in a European Context

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  • Maurizio Franzini
  • Michele Raitano

Abstract

Recently, the economic literature has been increasingly concerned with the inequality in income and in the standard of living both for individuals and households.1 Empirical evidence has proved that in most countries, during the last two or three decades, incomes have become more dispersed and also more and more concentrated in the hands of small and privileged segments of the society (the top 1 percent or 0.1 percent; Atkinson et al., 2011). The pace at which such developments have taken place has not been the same in all countries but, because of such developments, inequality is very high in several countries. Italy is one of them.

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  • Maurizio Franzini & Michele Raitano, 2015. "Income Inequality in Italy: Tendencies and Policy Implications," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Donatella Strangio & Giuseppe Sancetta (ed.), Italy in a European Context, chapter 3, pages 50-74, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-56077-3_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-56077-3_3
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    1. Maurizio Franzini & Mario Pianta, 2015. "Four engines of inequality," LEM Papers Series 2015/20, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
    2. Maurizio Franzini & Mario Pianta, 2015. "The making of inequality.Capital, labour and the distribution of income," Working Papers 1507, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Department of Economics, Society & Politics - Scientific Committee - L. Stefanini & G. Travaglini, revised 2015.

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