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Regional support for the national government. Joint effects of minimum income schemes in Italy
No full textThis paper highlights the extent to which minimum income schemes in Italian
regions improved the potential targeting and effectiveness of national minimum
income measures introduced in 2017 and 2018. By exploiting detailed survey data
on the income, wealth and living conditions of Italian households from the IT-SILC
survey and applying micro-simulation techniques, I first provide estimates of the
overall audience of potential recipients and assess the extent of low-income targeting.
I then evaluate the extent to which national and regional minimum income
schemes decrease poverty and income inequality indicators (i.e. the headcount ratio,
the income gap ratio, the severe material deprivation rate and the Gini index). The
results show that regional schemes broaden the set of potential recipients and the
coverage rate of national schemes, while they only slightly decrease the incidence
and intensity of poverty at the national level. Overall, the presence of complementary
regional measures brings the national measure, namely the ‘universal’ Reddito
di Inclusione, closer to other European minimum income schemes (using France,
Germany and Spain as benchmarks) in terms of benefit adequacy. This provides
evidence of the importance of taking into account programme complementarities
and multi-level government interventions when evaluating the impacts of national
policies
Quali evidenze e raccomandazioni dal rapporto Oxfam sulle disuguaglianze? Un approfondimento per l’Italia
No full textLa prima parte dell’articolo
riassume e analizza le evidenze
che emergono dal rapporto Oxfam
2018 – Ricompensare il lavoro,
non la ricchezza – e dal suo inserto
«Disuguitalia» con riferimento
allo scenario globale e, in particolar
modo, all’Italia. Il rapporto pone
l’accento su una crescita
incontrollata della disuguaglianza
economica dovuta principalmente
all’aumento dei super ricchi
e dei loro patrimoni, spesso ottenuti
attraverso canali non concorrenziali.
Nella seconda parte dell’articolo,
invece, con l’ausilio del World
Inequality Database, vengono
fornite alcune ulteriori evidenze
sulle recenti dinamiche in Italia
della disuguaglianza nei livelli
di reddito individuale lordo.
Nella parte finale si esplicita
una breve riflessione sulle
raccomandazioni proposte
nel rapporto, nonché sull’effetto
potenziale sulla disuguaglianza
economica delle principali
politiche sociali e fiscali
di prossima attuazione
nel nostro paese
Like a stone thrown into a pond – poverty contrast of an emporium of solidarity
No full textThis paper highlights to what extent an emporium of solidarity may affect poverty conditions of its recipients, and whether it generates net social benefits to different actors involved
Il reddito di cittadinanza. Cosa dicono finora i dati
No full textQuesto lavoro è dedicato alle prime evidenze quantitative sulla diffusione del Reddito di cittadinanza. L’ampia discussione tecnica e politica che ne ha preceduto l’introduzione ha costituito un’importante occasione per elaborare stime sui suoi possibili effetti. Nella prima parte del lavoro confrontiamo queste simulazioni, evidenziando similitudini e differenze. La seconda parte è invece dedicata all’analisi
delle informazioni quantitative che l’Osservatorio Inps ha da poco pubblicato dopo i primi sei mesi della misura. L’integrazione con dati su numero di famiglie e tassi di occupazione per fascia di età, a livello provinciale, ci permette di ottenere alcune conclusioni, in parte sicuramente preliminari, sulle caratteristiche distributive del Rdc e sull’evoluzione della povertà in Italia
SOS incomes: Simulated effects of COVID-19 and emergency benefits on individual and household income distribution in Italy
Full text linkUsing a static microsimulation model based on a link between survey and administrative data, this article investigates the effects of the pandemic on income distribution in Italy in 2020. The analysis focuses on both individuals and households by simulating through nowcasting techniques changes in labour income and in equivalised income, respectively. For both units of observations, we compare changes before and after social policy interventions, i.e., automatic stabilisers and benefits introduced by the government to address the effects of the COVID-19 emergency. We find that the pandemic has led to a relatively greater drop in labour income for those lying in the poorest quantiles, which, however, benefited more from the income support benefits. As a result, compared with the ‘No-COVID scenario’, income poverty and inequality indices grow considerably when these benefits are not considered, whereas the poverty increase greatly narrows and inequality slightly decreases once social policy interventions are taken into account. This evidence signals the crucial role played by cash social transfers to contrast the most serious economic consequences of the pandemic
Buy Flexible, Pay More: The Role of Temporary Contracts on Wage Inequality
No full textWe investigate the role of temporary contracts in shaping wage inequality in a dual labour market. Based on Italian individual-level administrative data, our analysis focuses on new hires in temporary and open-ended contracts for the period of 2005-2015. To estimate the presence of differentials over the daily wage distribution, we follow Firpo (2007) and implement an inverse probability estimator, which allows us to control for labour market history, including lagged outcomes, over the last 16 years. Our results show the existence of a premium for temporary contracts over the full distribution of daily remuneration at entry, confirming the economic theory of equalizing differences. The wage premium is greater when permanent contracts are more valuable, such as for 'marginalised' categories like female, young, and low-paid temporary workers, and during the years of the economic crisis. The gap remains substantial after taking into account differences in working hours between workers
Individual heterogeneity and pension choices. Evidence from Italy
No full textThe 2007 Italian pension reform allowed transferring future severance pay contributions into a pension fund. Although this was accompanied by an information campaign advising employees to make the transfer, only a minority of them did so. We analyze the heterogeneity in employees’ choices using micro panel data from the Bank of Italy household survey. Two are the main findings. First, the decision to transfer and pension fund participation after the reform are more likely for more (financially) educated and older individuals, with high household income and wealth, and less likely for female employees, in the South, and in small firms. Second, framing the analysis within the Elaboration Likelihood Model highlights that the cognitive processes underlying the decision on pension fund participation may be quite different. The decision consciousness is lower for employees working in small firms, where employers have an incentive to stimulate workers to deny the transfer
Monetary poverty and adequacy of minimum income schemes in seven major EU countries. What linkages?
No full textThe paper is structured as follows. Section 2 briefly discusses theoretical and empirical links between poverty concepts and eligibility to MI schemes. Section 3 describes the eligibility criteria followed in the seven countries. Section 4 presents the main findings of our empirical investigation: the gap between the AROP and the administrative poverty line and how this gap changes according to the household composition
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