The Effects of Marital Status on Wealth Inequality: A Trend Analysis (1988~2005)

• Main Authors: Wei-Lun Hong, 洪偉倫
• Other Authors: Kuo-hsien Su
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/90306295318182071641

碩士 === 臺灣大學 === 社會學研究所 === 96 === The disparity between rich and poor is always an important issue in the social stratification field. In the past, exports focused on income, one of the factor of the economy security, but overlooked the neglecting wealth can be a more powerful indicator. On the other hand, marital status could also affect the owning of the wealth. In this study, the researcher divided the marital status in four different catalogs, which are married, single, divorced, and remained. And trying to find dissimilarities of these four catalogs that may influence the owning of wealth and the changing trend, considering the gender differences and having nonage children that affect the wealth. This study uses data which named “The Survey of Family Income and Expenditure” in 1988 to 2005 from Directorate General of Budget, Accounting & Statistics. And do the analysis with regression model and the trend analysis which match the repeated cross-sectional design. Seven main discoveries are as follows. First, the single compared married own less wealth. Second, divorced female compared married female own less wealth. Third, the differences of wealth between remained female and married female are not obvious. Fourth, married people have less wealth when there have nonage children in the house. Fifth, the trend of wealth between the single female and married female is becoming convergence year by year. Sixth, the trend of wealth between the remained people and married people is becoming convergence year by year. Seventh, the trend of wealth between divorced female and married female is becoming convergence year by year. This study is the preliminary study of wealth inequality research in Taiwan, comparing how the marital status influence the owning of wealth and long-term trend analysis, and put forward the restriction of this study and the suggestion of future study.