Overview
- Includes cross-country analysis
- Highlights the importance of housing in wealth accumulation
- Charts changing homeownership trends over the last few decades
- Examines whether the recent recession has had a greater or smaller impact on homeownership when compared to previous recessions
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Wealth and Homeownership
Book Subtitle: Women, Men and Families
Authors: Mariacristina Rossi, Eva M. Sierminska
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92558-5
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92557-8Published: 06 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92558-5Published: 27 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 122
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Gender and Economics, Investments and Securities, Personal Finance/Wealth Management/Pension Planning, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy, Population Economics