Wealth and Homeownership - Women, Men and Families

In almost every country, wealth is predominantly constituted by housing equity, but what are the possible risks and how does wealth accumulation vary across countries? In this timely book, Rossi and Sierminska analyse the complex relationship between gender, wealth and homeownership. By providing a conceptual framework to insert homeownership and housing decisions within an economic rationale, the authors explore how gender and family types have shaped wealth accumulation and homeownership.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction and Conceptual Framework.- Chapter 2: Wealth Variation Across Countries.- Chapter 3: Families and Housing Decisions: A Look Across OECD Countries.- Chapter 4: Homeownership and Wealth Accumulation.- Concluding Remarks.

About the author

Mariacristina Rossi is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Turin, Italy and senior researcher at CeRP-CCA. Her research interests include intertemporal saving and consumption choices, household finance, development and gender economics.
Eva M. Sierminska is Senior Researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, Luxembourg and Research Fellow at IZA, DIW Berlin and GLO. She is a labor economist and has extensive research experience in the area of labor markets, inequality, household finance and population economics. 

Summary

In almost every country, wealth is predominantly constituted by housing equity, but what are the possible risks and how does wealth accumulation vary across countries? In this timely book, Rossi and Sierminska analyse the complex relationship between gender, wealth and homeownership. By providing a conceptual framework to insert homeownership and housing decisions within an economic rationale, the authors explore how gender and family types have shaped wealth accumulation and homeownership.

Product details

• Authors: Mariacristin Rossi, Mariacristina Rossi, Eva M Sierminska, Eva M. Sierminska
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319925578
• ISBN: 978-3-31-992557-8
• No. of pages: 122
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 220 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 285 g
• Illustrations: XIX, 122 p. 12 illus., 9 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Population, C, Personal finance, Finance, Pension plans, Investment Banking, Economic theory & philosophy, Financial Services, Economics and Finance, Securities, Political Economy, Welfare economics, Gender studies, gender groups, population economics, Management science, Population & demography, Investments and Securities, Microeconomics, Investment & securities, Culture—Economic aspects, Cultural Economics, Personal Finance, Wealth Management, Pension Planning, Personal Finance/Wealth Management/Pension Planning, Gender and Economics