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Pension Wealth and the Gender Wealth Gap. [PDF]

open access: yesEur J Popul, 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.
Cordova K, Grabka MM, Sierminska E.
europepmc   +8 more sources

Explaining the gender wealth gap. [PDF]

open access: yesDemography, 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.
Ruel E, Hauser RM.
europepmc   +5 more sources

Wealth Accumulation and the Gender Wealth Gap Across Couples' Legal Statuses and Matrimonial Property Regimes in France. [PDF]

open access: yesEur J Popul, 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 ...
Frémeaux N, Leturcq M.
europepmc   +6 more sources

Examining the gender wealth gap [PDF]

open access: yesOxford 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
semanticscholar   +7 more sources

The Gender Wealth Gap Across European Countries [PDF]

open access: yesReview of Income and Wealth, 2017
This paper studies the gap in wealth between male and female single households using 2010 Household Finance and Consumption Survey data for eight European countries. In the raw data, a large gap emerges at the upper end of the unconditional distribution.
Schneebaum, Alyssa   +3 more
semanticscholar   +7 more sources

Investigating the Gender Wealth Gap Across Occupational Classes [PDF]

open access: yesFeminist 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 ...
Waitkus, Nora, Minkus, Lara
openaire   +5 more sources

Examining the Gender Wealth Gap in Germany [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN 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
core   +12 more sources

Who gets counted? Understanding low female death registration in India. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE
BackgroundCivil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) systems are essential for governance, public health, and achieving SDGs however, gender gaps limit women's access to rights and services, with under-registration of female vital events reinforcing ...
Sheetal Verma   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Decomposing the Gender Wealth Gap in Ecuador [PDF]

open access: yesWorld 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.
Boaz Anglade   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Gender disparities in childhood vaccination in India: exploring the role of son preference using NFHS-5 data [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health
BackgroundEvery child has the fundamental human right to life-saving healthcare, including vaccination. Yet in India, this right is less accessible to girls in households shaped by son preference, a deep-rooted cultural bias that devalues girl children ...
Soumen Barik   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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