This paper argues that public policies, including minimum income schemes (MIS), should
devote specific attention to large families, in terms of both benefits' generosity and targeting …

This paper reviews the evolution of EU social policy over the last two decades and provides
an assessment of the most recent strategy, Europe 2020, in the field of social policy along …

The «Reddito di cittadinanza»(RdC) might potentially represent an important shift in the
history of the Italian social assistance, that is traditionally very categorical. At the present …

Italy was among the countries that were hit the hardest by the Covid-19 pandemic, which
laid bare pre-existing gaps in social protection provision. In such emergency situation, it …

We investigate the dynamics of incidence, intensity and persistence of low pay in Italy from
1990 to 2018 by exploiting a large administrative sample of employees in the private sector …

The fight against poverty and social exclusion has been on the European agenda for a
longtime. Since the mid-2010s, a number of events conjured towards stronger mobilization …

The main research objective was to assess the range of threats related to poverty or social
exclusion in EU countries among people with disabilities as compared to people without …

Over the last decades several factors have created strong pressure to open discussions on a
minimum income initiative at European Union (EU) level. The global economic and …

Exploiting an innovative administrative-survey-linked dataset for Italy recording household
consumption expenditure, absolute poverty status and receipt of social benefits in 2019 and …

Un quarto dei lavoratori italiani ha una retribuzione individuale bassa (cioè inferiore al 60%
della mediana) e più di un lavoratore su dieci si trova in situazione di povertà (cioè vive in …