TY - BOOK
T1 - Composition of families and subjectiveeconomic well-being: an application toItalian context
AU - Cracolici, Maria Francesca
AU - Cuffaro, Miranda
AU - Giambona, Francesca
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Using Italian data on Income and Living Conditions for the year 2005, the paper explores empirically whether the determinants of subjective economic well-being (SEW) differ (or not) in four representative typologies of households. By means of a Partial Proportional Ordered Logit Model the subjective economic well-being – proxied by the capacity of households to make ends meet – has been explored. Results highlight the variables acting on SEW, common to each typology, are related both to economic status (specifically, the capacity to pay taxes and to afford housing, clothes and holiday expenditures) and to socio-demographic status (specifically, the work-status and the highest level of education). A more in depth analysis, by level of education, shows the economic precariousness of some specific typologies, namely families with one person, with two or more children, and those whose respondent has a very low level of education.
AB - Using Italian data on Income and Living Conditions for the year 2005, the paper explores empirically whether the determinants of subjective economic well-being (SEW) differ (or not) in four representative typologies of households. By means of a Partial Proportional Ordered Logit Model the subjective economic well-being – proxied by the capacity of households to make ends meet – has been explored. Results highlight the variables acting on SEW, common to each typology, are related both to economic status (specifically, the capacity to pay taxes and to afford housing, clothes and holiday expenditures) and to socio-demographic status (specifically, the work-status and the highest level of education). A more in depth analysis, by level of education, shows the economic precariousness of some specific typologies, namely families with one person, with two or more children, and those whose respondent has a very low level of education.
KW - Economic Well-being
KW - Ordered Logit Model
KW - Subjective Approach
KW - Economic Well-being
KW - Ordered Logit Model
KW - Subjective Approach
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10447/57676
UR - http://www.ecineq.org/milano/WP/ECINEQ2011-195.pdf
M3 - Book
T3 - ECINEQ Working Paper Series
BT - Composition of families and subjectiveeconomic well-being: an application toItalian context
PB - ECINEQ
ER -