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The economic well-being is often assessed using income measures, but one also needs to consider the wealth of people. Levels of wealth are in fact important measures of economic well-being, in addition to income, because “analyses of income only capture the current state of inequality, while wealth embodies the potential for examining accumulated and historically structured inequality” (Oliver, Shapiro, & Press, 1993, p. 75). From a gender perspective, while an extensive literature exists on women’s incomes and the gender wage gap, relatively little work has been done on the gender wealth gap (Deere & Doss, 2006). Only recently, a special issue of Feminist Economics (n. 12/2006) has been completely dedicated to address gender gap in wealth in a plurality of contexts (Deere & Doss, 2006). The lack of research on gender differences in wealth is mainly due to the limited availability of wealth data, especially at the individual level: the little that is available typically...
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Vignoli, D. (2014). Gender and Wealth. In: Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_1125
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