La vulnerabilità economica delle famiglie italiane

Mariacristina Rossi and Giovanni Vecchi

Rivista di Politica Economica, 2011, issue 3, 167-181

Abstract: This paper focuses on vulnerability to poverty in Italy. We estimate the incidence of vulnerable households drawing from the ISTAT Household Budget Surveys for the year range 1985-2001. We classify as vulnerable those families with a higher-than-average probability of falling below the poverty line in the year subsequent the date of the interview. By making use of the data in the form of a pseudo-panel, we find that vulnerable households represent a sizeable proportion of the population, reaching 50% in some years. The regional disparities are wide and increasing over time, vulnerability in the South being three times as much as in the North East.

Keywords: povertà; vulnerabilità; condizioni di vita; benessere (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 D12 I3 I32 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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