data is available for 2012 only. Individual level wealth data allows to analyze the gender wealth gap between women and men …We 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 and identify the extent to which the redistributive effect of pension …

There is growing interest in understanding how gender influences the accumulation of wealth. While prior studies … oversamples the top 1% of wealth holders in Germany, we show that the gender wealth gap is small for individuals up to age 40 … differences: men tend to inherit larger sums than women during their working life. Women often outlive their male partners, thus …

The gender pay gap not only affects women's financial security during their working lives but also their wealth … evidence that the wealth gap is narrowing, which is largely explained by the gender earnings gap. Previously married women are … available for retirement. This note reveals a large gender wealth gap in Canada among singles near retirement. Using a repeated …

We examine the gender wealth gap with a focus on pension wealth and statutory pension rights. By taking into account … rights reduces the gender wealth gap. The data for our analysis come from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), one of the … available in the SOEP for 2012 only. While the relative raw gender wealth gap is about 35% (or 31,000 euros) when analysing the …

We examine the gender wealth gap with a focus on pension wealth and statutory pension rights. By taking into account … rights reduces the gender wealth gap. The data for our analysis come from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), one of the … available in the SOEP for 2012 only. While the relative raw gender wealth gap is about 35% (or 31,000 euros) when analysing the …

.g., self-employment, no migration background, inheritances, high income) that decrease the wealth gap for women increase it for …While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the … distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio …