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Wealth and Homeownership

Women, Men and Families

  • 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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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Introduction and Conceptual Framework

    • Mariacristina Rossi, Eva M. Sierminska
    Pages 1-17
  3. Wealth Variation Across Countries

    • Mariacristina Rossi, Eva M. Sierminska
    Pages 19-54
  4. Families and Housing Decisions: A Look Across OECD Countries

    • Mariacristina Rossi, Eva M. Sierminska
    Pages 55-91
  5. Homeownership and Wealth Accumulation

    • Mariacristina Rossi, Eva M. Sierminska
    Pages 93-116
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 117-122

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

  • Department of Management, School of Management and Economics, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

    Mariacristina Rossi

  • LISER - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, Esch-Belval, Luxembourg

    Eva M. Sierminska

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. 

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Hardcover Book USD 59.99
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