FAMIGLIE, POVERTÀ E RICCHEZZA: ITALIA E SPAGNA A CONFRONTO

The aim of this paper is to analyze and compare the family composition with regard to the dimension, the territorial location and the levels of poverty and richness. in Italy and Spain, the two southernmost countries of Mediterranean Europe. In order to quantify the degree of poverty, the class of FGT-indicators proposed by Foster et al (1984) will be used, while, to measure wealth, the wealth index classes developed by Peilch et al (2006) will be considered. The analysis will focus on the the period 2010-2013; the data that will be used are part of the official statistics produced by the National Statistics Institutes (ISTAT-INE) and the EU-Silc Survey conducted by Eurostat