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    Exploring Recent Increases in the Gender Wealth Gap Among Australia’s Single Households

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    Authors
    Austen, Siobhan
    Ong, Rachel
    Bawa, Sherry
    Jefferson, Therese
    Date
    2014
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Austen, S. and Ong, R. and Bawa, S. and Jefferson, T. 2015. Exploring Recent Increases in the Gender Wealth Gap Among Australia’s Single Households. The Economic and Labour Relations Review. 26 (1): pp. 3-28.
    Source Title
    The Economic and Labour Relations Review
    DOI
    10.1177/1035304614556040
    ISSN
    1035-3046
    School
    School of Economics and Finance
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/39174
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    This study uses three wealth modules from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey to explore the gender wealth gap for single Australian households between 2002 and 2010. The findings indicate a significant gender wealth gap, which has increased over the 8 years explored. Most of the increase in the wealth gap was associated with a relatively rapid increase in the value of housing assets by single men over the study period. The findings of this study challenge a wider literature that tends to emphasise that men are more prepared to invest in ‘risky’ assets such as shares and that their higher wealth is due to these investment strategies. Instead, this study emphasises how, in the Australian context at least, it was higher growth rates in the value of housing assets owned by single men that improved their wealth position relative to single women over the last decade.

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