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Pension Wealth and the Gender Wealth Gap [PDF]
European Journal of Population, 2022 AbstractWe examine the gender wealth gap with a focus on pension wealth and statutory pension rights. By taking into account employment characteristics of women and men, we are able to identify the extent to which the redistributive effect of pension rights reduces the gender wealth gap.
Markus M Grabka +2 more
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Explaining the Gender Wealth Gap [PDF]
Demography, 2013 Abstract To assess and explain the United States’ gender wealth gap, we use the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study to examine wealth accumulated by a single cohort over 50 years by gender, by marital status, and limited to the respondents who are their family’s best financial reporters.
Erin Ruel, Robert M Hauser
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Wealth Accumulation and the Gender Wealth Gap Across Couples’ Legal Statuses and Matrimonial Property Regimes in France [PDF]
European Journal of Population, 2022 AbstractThis paper examines wealth accumulation among couple-headed households and investigates changes in within-household inequality over time and across couple statuses. Going beyond previous research that mostly studies wealth accumulation within marriages by comparing married with unmarried individuals, we consider the legal statuses of couples ...
Marion Leturcq
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Investigating the Gender Wealth Gap Across Occupational Classes [PDF]
Feminist Economics, 2021 This study examines the role of occupational classes in the Gender Wealth Gap (GWG). Despite rising interest in gender differences in wealth, the central role of occupations in restricting and enabling its accumulation has been neglected thus far. Drawing on the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study employs quantile regressions and decomposition ...
Nora Waitkus, Lara Minkus
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Decomposing the Gender Wealth Gap in Ecuador [PDF]
World Development, 2017 Abstract Unlike the gender earnings gap that has been amply studied, the gender wealth gap has only recently begun to receive attention. Studies of the gender wealth gap have been concentrated on developed countries and have been limited by the use of household-level data.
Pilar Useche, Carmen Diana Deere
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The gender wealth gap and the role of private pension wealth in Great Britain [PDF]
Rev Econ HousehAbstract Research on gender wealth gaps is hampered by the fact that most wealth surveys gather information on wealth at the household or family level rather than for individuals, and also often do not include pension wealth. Here we exploit the rich data on individual wealth including private pension wealth (occupational and personal)
Nolan B, Palomino J.
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What explains the gender gap in wealth? Evidence from administrative data [PDF]
Review of Economics of the Household, 2020 AbstractThis paper studies the gender gap in net wealth. We use administrative data on wealth that are linked to the Estonian Household Finance and Consumption Survey, which provides individual-level wealth data for all household types. The unconditional gender gap in mean wealth is 45%, but this sizeable gap in means originates mainly from the top ...
Jaanika Meriküll +2 more
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Examining the Gender Wealth Gap in Germany [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 Welfare-oriented analyses of economic outcome measures such as income and wealth generally rest on the assumption of pooled and equally shared resources among all household members. Yet the lack of individual-level data hampers the distribution of income and wealth within the household context.
Sierminska, Eva +2 more
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Examining the gender wealth gap [PDF]
Oxford Economic Papers, 2010 September 2009 Abstract: Economic research on the determinants of gender differences in economic outcomes particularly in income and consumption is well established. Extending these investigations to other outcomes such as wealth up till now has been limited due to lack of individual-level data.
Eva M. Sierminska +2 more
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Class Origin, Intergenerational Transfers, and the Gender Wealth Gap
Socio-Economic Review, 2023 This study pursues two objectives: First, to describe how gender disparities in wealth levels vary by parental class and second, to examine the contribution of intergenerational transfers to these differences. It thereby sheds light on the hitherto neglected interplay between family background and gender in shaping wealth inequality.
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