Dear Colleague, We cordially invite you to the wiiw-FIW-Seminar in International Economics on Thursday, 23 June, 4 pm wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, Library (2nd floor) The Gender Wealth Gap in Europe Alyssa Schneebaum (with Miriam Rehm, Katharina Mader and Katarina Hollan) Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) Abstract This paper studies the gap in wealth holdings between male and female single households using 2010 Household Finance and Consumption Survey data for 10 European countries. The analysis employs OLS and quantile regressions and finds that there is no wealth gap across most of the wealth distribution, but that male households have between 30% and 76% more net wealth than female households at the very top of the distribution. Differences in labour market characteristics, in particular earnings and the ownership of business assets, explain much of the difference in the gender wealth gap between the 70th and 90th percentiles. Keywords: Gender; Wealth; Wealth Gap; Distribution JEL Codes: D31, J16, E21 After the seminar there will be the opportunity for the speaker and the audience for further discussions, accompanied by drinks and snacks. This seminar series is an activity in the framework of FIW ('Forschungsschwerpunkt Internationale Wirtschaft'), which is a project designed to build a center of excellence in research on International Economics, funded by the Austrian Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW). The seminar programme is regularly updated. Please visit our website for the current version of the programme at: http://wiiw.ac.at/fiw-wiiw-seminars-in-international-economics-es-6.html http://www.fiw.ac.at/index.php?id=748 (Papers and presentation slides, as far as available, are posted on our homepage http://wiiw.ac.at/events.html after the respective seminars.) Best regards Julia Grübler Organizer -- Michaela Bönisch Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche (wiiw) The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies Rahlgasse 3, A-1060 Wien T: +43 1 533 66 10 - 40 F: +43 1 533 66 10 - 50 boenisch@wiiw.ac.at http://www.wiiw.ac.at/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you do not want to receive further mailings please send an e-mail to boenisch@wiiw.ac.at Falls Sie keine weiteren Zusendungen des wiiw wünschen senden Sie bitte ein E-Mail an boenisch@wiiw.ac.at