Examining the gender wealth gap

Artikel

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. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) we find a significant ‘raw’ gender wealth gap of 50,000€ for married partners. Decomposition analyses reveal that the gap is largely driven by differences in characteristics between men and women (observables), particularly by individual’s own income and labour market experience. This is especially true at the bottom and at the top of the wealth distribution, which we show using semi-parametric decomposition techniques. Differences in the lower half of the distribution are mostly driven by the wealth function, i.e., the way in which women transform their characteristics into wealth.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: Oxford Economic Papers ; Volume: 62 ; Year: 2010 ; Issue: 4 ; Pages: 669-690 ; Oxford: Oxford University Press

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation ; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions ; Welfare Economics: Other ; General Welfare; Well-Being
• Thema: Wealth gap ; Wealth inequality ; Gender ; SOEP ; Familienökonomik ; Privater Haushalt ; Panel ; Deutschland

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Sierminska, Eva M. ; Frick, Joachim R. ; Grabka, Markus M.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Oxford University Press ; ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
• (wo): Oxford
• (wann): 2010-10

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.1093/oep/gpq007
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/66144
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ