Investigating the Gender Wealth Gap Across Occupational Classes

Waitkus, Nora; Minkus, Lara

doi:10.1080/13545701.2021.1973059

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“…Forth, we control for a rather limited number of employment characteristics—employment status and self-employment status of partners. A recent literature has documented the central role of occupations in wealth accumulation (Waitkus & Minkus, 2021 ). As occupation classes may also be related to the choice of couple type, it raises the question on how occupation classes, couple status and wealth accumulation are intertwined.…”

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Wealth Accumulation and the Gender Wealth Gap Across Couples’ Legal Statuses and Matrimonial Property Regimes in France

Frémeaux

Leturcq

2022

Eur J Population

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This paper examines wealth accumulation among couple-headed households and investigates changes in within-household inequality over time and across couple statuses. Going beyond previous research that mostly studies wealth accumulation within marriages by comparing married with unmarried individuals, we consider the legal statuses of couples (cohabitation, civil union, and marriage) and property regimes (community and separate property). We apply multivariate regression analysis to high-quality longitudinal data from the French wealth survey (2015–2018) and find no differences in net worth accumulation between couples’ legal statuses when property regimes are not accounted for. However, couples with a separate property regime accumulate more wealth than couples with a community property regime, and married couples with a separate property regime drive this association. Our results show that the gender wealth gap is larger for couples with a separate property regime, but it is partially compensated by accumulated wealth. Our results highlight the importance of legal statuses and property regimes in explaining the dynamics of between- and within-household inequality in France, specifically within a context of increasingly diversified marital trajectories.

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Section: Concluding Commentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wealth Accumulation and the Gender Wealth Gap Across Couples’ Legal Statuses and Matrimonial Property Regimes in France

Frémeaux

Leturcq

2022

Eur J Population

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“…Such gender inequalities pertain not just to wages but to wealth, as the gap between labor-and asset-derived incomes continues to expand and class position becomes ever more contingent on one's ability to monetise asset portfolios (Adkins, Cooper, and Konings, 2020). Indeed, like the relation between gender and gentrification, the gender wealth gap is another understudied form of stratification, even though available evidence "demonstrates that women systematically have less access to wealth" (Deere and Doss, 2006) and that "women's lower levels of wealth are mostly attributable to lower lifetime earnings, discontinuous labor trajectories, and family obligations" (Waitkus and Minkus, 2021). This begs the question if the women hosts Airbnb publicly champions actually own the home they are "sharing".…”

Section: Platform Fix 3: "Home-sharing" As a Way To Fi-nance The Risi...mentioning

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Platform capitalism’s social contract

Doorn¹

2022

Internet Policy Review

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What kind of social contract underwrites platform capitalism? Based on findings from the Platform Labor research project, I discuss a number of ways in which platform companies are expanding their services and influence by identifying particular societal needs and marketing themselves as efficient solutions to workers, citizens and civil society organisations, as well as local governments. I argue that we are seeing the emergence of different gendered "platform fixes", connected to other types of "fixes" that have sought to overcome the limits of capital accumulation and attendant crises of social reproduction. The three platform fixes discussed in this essay each attempt to revise and rearticulate elements of the nation state's social contract, operating at the urban level: 1) Channeling migrant labour into on-demand domestic work; 2) Coordinating civil society's "altruistic surplus" to deliver social care; and 3) Promoting "home-sharing" as a way to finance the rising costs of social reproduction. Issue 1This paper is part of The gender of the platform economy, a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Mayo Fuster Morell, Ricard Espelt and David Megias.

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“…When employed, women earn less than men, on average, and such structurally disadvantaged labour market positions can mean they have a lower capacity to accumulate wealth, including pension entitlements (Grabka et al, 2015 ; Madero-Cabib & Fasang, 2015 ; Ruel & Hauser, 2013 ). Furthermore, evidence shows that women’s lower likelihood of being self-employed and their higher likelihood of working in sociocultural professions contribute to explaining the gender wealth gap beyond simple earning differences (Waitkus & Minkus, 2021 ). Finally, Chang ( 2010 ) has used the metaphor of the “wealth escalator” to describe how multiple advantages for men (for example, fringe and tax benefits) additionally widen the gender wealth gap beyond earnings.…”

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Wealth in Couples: Introduction to the Special Issue

2022

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The assumption that economic resources are equally shared within households has been found to be untenable for income but is still often upheld for wealth. In this introduction to the special issue “Wealth in Couples”, we argue that within-household inequality in wealth is a pertinent and under-researched area that is ripe for development. To this end, we outline the relevance of wealth for demographic research, making the distinction between individual and household wealth. Drawing on a life-course perspective, we discuss individual wealth accumulation within couples and its links to family-demographic processes, the institutional context, and norms on pooling and sharing. We conclude with a brief summary of the main findings from the special issue and highlight implications for demographic research and for future research in this field.

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Investigating the Gender Wealth Gap Across Occupational Classes

Cited by 13 publications

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Wealth Accumulation and the Gender Wealth Gap Across Couples’ Legal Statuses and Matrimonial Property Regimes in France

Wealth Accumulation and the Gender Wealth Gap Across Couples’ Legal Statuses and Matrimonial Property Regimes in France

Platform capitalism’s social contract

Wealth in Couples: Introduction to the Special Issue

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