significantly enhances women's empowerment. Also, a decline in household gender wage gap results meaningfully in improving household … welfare. Particularly, the increasing effect on women's welfare resulting from decreases in household gender wage differences … techniques to examine the effect of gender wage differences within households on women's empowerment and welfare in Ghana. The …

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap …

pension contributions and expected standard of living in retirement, using microdata from the German Panel on Household … sharing. The empirical results suggest that household bargaining is significantly correlated with individual retirement …-related behaviour and expectations, with gender differences. Cooperative partners expect higher standards of living in retirement …

equally, and income ranking is more important than gender in defining household roles, with higher earners more likely to have …This paper studies how gender and income dynamics influence the division of responsibility in two-adult households for … develop a penalized latent variable model that accounts for systemic response errors. The data reveal that that women, even …

-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). In married and cohabiting couples men's net worth, on average, is 33,000 euros higher than women's. We ….g., self-employment, no migration background, inheritances, high income) that decrease the wealth gap for women increase it for …

-economic panel study. In married and cohabiting couples men's net worth, on average, is 33,000 euros higher than women's. We look at ….g., self-employment, no migration background, inheritances, high income) that decrease the wealth gap for women increase it for …

We set up and solve a rich life-cycle model of household decisions involving consumption of both perishable goods and …

This paper explores the importance of the household's financial position for an individual's level of well … household's monetary financial position on overall life satisfaction and financial well-being, with the latter being measured by … indicate that the household's level of net wealth, assets and debt are important determinants of overall life satisfaction and …