Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Chiara Mussida 
Author-X-Name-First: Chiara
Author-X-Name-Last: Mussida
Author-Email: chiara.mussida@unicatt.it
Author-Workplace-Name: DISCE, Università Cattolica
Author-Name: Maria Laura Parisi
Author-X-Name-First: Maria laura
Author-X-Name-Last: Parisi
Author-Email: marialaura.parisi@unibs.it 
Author-Workplace-Name: Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università degli Studi di Brescia.
Title: Households at risk of severe material deprivation: the cases of Italy and Spain
Abstract: This paper documents how the phenomenon of severe material deprivation spread out in Italy and Spain 
in the recent past. These two European countries have experienced an increasing risk of poverty since the economic 
crisis, when more than 20% of households fell under the poverty line. Moreover, a considerable share of these households
are also materially deprived. Stylized facts suggest that, despite pertaining to the same area, even before the onset of 
the Great Recession, they look different in relative terms, since they show heterogeneous severe material deprivation rates, 
below and above the EU average. The percentage for Spain is below the average, while the share for Italy is above the average 
and almost double that for Spain. The analysis reveals which households characteristics are associated to the risk of being 
severely materially deprived and whether the risk differs across Spain and Italy. 
Length: 50 pages
Creation-Date: 2019-07
Publication-Status: Published in Review of Economics, Month aaaa, pages nn1-nn2
File-URL: http://www.unicatt.it/dipartimenti/DISES/allegati/dises-dises-wp_19_142.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-Function: First version, 2019
Number: dises142
Classification-JEL: I32, I38, J12, J14
Keywords: severe material deprivation, households, Italy, Spain
Handle: RePEc:ctc:serie2:dises142