LoRiggio, Tessa; Morris, Todd - 2024
available for retirement. This note reveals a large gender wealth gap in Canada among singles near retirement. Using a repeated … national wealth survey from 1999 to 2019, we find an average wealth gap favouring men at ages 45-59 of $56,000 or 16%, and the … evidence that the wealth gap is narrowing, which is largely explained by the gender earnings gap. Previously married women are …