Measuring the gender asset gap: Evidence from Spain
While the income gender gap has been widely researched to date, less attention has been paid to the wealth gender gap. This paper analyses individu-al-level data taken from the Spanish tax agency between 2012 and 2017 and documents the existence of an increasing wealth gap in Spain in this period. T...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Repositorio: | Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/718974 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10486/718974 https://dx.doi.org/10.13043/DYS.94.1 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Spain Wealth Income and wealth Social inequality Taxation Economía |
| Sumario: | While the income gender gap has been widely researched to date, less attention has been paid to the wealth gender gap. This paper analyses individu-al-level data taken from the Spanish tax agency between 2012 and 2017 and documents the existence of an increasing wealth gap in Spain in this period. Through a comparative analysis, we find a clear difference in wealth accu-mulation patterns between the two genders, especially with regards to hold-ings of equity in productive companies. We also find that both women and men in the highest quantiles of the wealth distribution have increased their wealth and that men hold more assets that women. With respect to income distribution, the data shows that men’s income accounts for a larger share of total income, which reinforces the gender gap related to economic resources |
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