Abstract

RUIZ, Juan Rafael; VILLANUEVA, Paloma  and  STUPARIU, Patricia. Measuring the Gender Asset Gap: Evidence from Spain. Desarro. soc. [online]. 2023, n.94, pp.11-35.  Epub May 31, 2023. ISSN 0120-3584.  https://doi.org/10.13043/dys.94.1.

While the income gender gap has been widely researched to date, less attention has been paid to the wealth gender gap. This paper analyses individual-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 accumulation patterns between the two genders, especially with regards to holdings 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.

Keywords : Wealth; social inequality; income and wealth; taxation; Spain; B54; D31; P48.

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