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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …
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Intra-Household Welfare
Chiappori, Pierre-Andre - 2014
In this paper we develop an approach to measuring inequality and poverty that recognizes the fact that individuals …
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Sources of German income inequality across time and space
Deutschmann, Franziska - In: What drives inequality?, (pp. 39-54). 2019
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Marital sorting, household inequality and selection
Fernández-Val, Iván; Vuuren, Aico van; Vella, Francis - 2023
Using CPS data for 1976 to 2022 we explore how wage inequality has evolved for married couples with both spouses … working full time full year, and its impact on household income inequality. We also investigate how marriage sorting patterns … have changed over this period. To determine the factors driving income inequality we estimate a model explaining the joint …
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Does the stork deliver happiness? : parenthood and life satisfaction
Baetschmann, Gregori; Staub, Kevin E.; Studer, Raphael - 2012
This paper examines the relationship between parenthood and life satisfaction using longitudinal data on women from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Previous studies have focused on satisfaction differences between parents and comparable childless adults, mostly finding small and often negative...
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Stochastic household forecasts by coherent random shares predictions
Keilman, Nico; Duin, Coen van - 2014 - This version 14 April 2014
We compute a stochastic household forecast for the Netherlands by the random share method. Time series of shares of persons in nine household positions, broken down by sex and five-year age group for the years 1996-2010 are modelled by means of the Hyndman-Booth-Yasmeen product-ratio variant of...
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Marriage Squeeze, Marriage Age and the Household Savings Rate in China
Nie, Guangyu - 2020
Recent influential papers claim that single men's saving competition for marriage intensified by an increase in the male-to-female ratio in the pre-marital cohort explains 60 percent of the rise of China's aggregate household savings rate. In this paper, we analyze whether the marriage...
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The Impact of Pre-Marital Sex Ratios on Household Saving in Two Asian Countries : The Competitive Saving Motive Revisited
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2016
This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the pre-marital sex ratio on the household saving rate. To summarize the main findings of the paper, it finds that the...
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The impact of sex ratios before marriage on household saving in two Asian countries : the competitive saving motive revisited
Horioka, Charles; Terada Hagiwara, Akiko - 2016
This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and the Republic of Korea using longterm time series data for the 1975-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the premarital sex ratio on the household saving rate. To summarize the main findings of the paper, it finds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011579569
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The Impact of Sex Ratios Before Marriage on Household Saving in Two Asian Countries : The Competitive Saving Motive Revisited
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2016
This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and the Republic of Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975–2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the premarital sex ratio on the household saving rate. To summarize the main findings of the paper, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980861