@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp1530,
            	author={Boeri, Tito and Brandolini, Andrea},
            	title={The Age of Discontent: Italian Households at the Beginning of the Decade},
            	year={2005},
	month={Mar},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={1530},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1530},
	abstract={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.},
	keywords={poverty;income inequality;household confidence;income mobility},
            }