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    The Gender Gap in Financial Security: What We Know and Don't Know about Australian Households

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    Authors
    Austen, Siobhan
    Jefferson, Therese
    Ong, Rachel
    Date
    2014
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Austen, S. and Jefferson, T. and Ong, R. 2014. The Gender Gap in Financial Security: What We Know and Don't Know about Australian Households. Feminist Economics. 20 (3): pp. 25-52.
    Source Title
    Feminist Economics
    DOI
    10.1080/13545701.2014.911413
    ISSN
    1354-5701
    School
    School of Economics and Finance
    Remarks

    This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Feminist Economics, 2014, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: <ahref="http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13545701.2014.911413">http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13545701.2014.911413</a>

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49530
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    This study investigates the gender wealth gap in Australia by examiningdifferences in the net worth of households headed by single women andmen, using data from the 2006 Household, Income and Labour Dynamicsin Australia (HILDA) Survey. It demonstrates that the gender wealth gap isconcentrated in particular types of assets, and differences in the composition ofwealth, especially in high net worth households, are an important feature ofthe wealth gap in Australia. Using decomposition techniques within a quantileregression framework, the study explores the effects of individual characteristicsof single male and female households on their wealth and finds that individualfactors play a relatively small role in accounting for the large gender wealth gapat the top of the wealth distribution. Therefore, differences in the compositionof men and women’s wealth portfolios contribute to the gender wealth gap, andfuture research must account for these differences.

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