¿La incidencia de la pobreza discrimina por razones de género?: Análisis de los factores determinantes en el caso español

Tellado Pérez, Miriam

¿La incidencia de la pobreza discrimina por razones de género?: Análisis de los factores determinantes en el caso español

Citation

Tellado Pérez, M. ¿La incidencia de la pobreza discrimina por razones de género?: Análisis de los factores determinantes en el caso español. 2013. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/20997

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Abstract

The present paper translates the academic debate on the higher relative risk of poverty that women face in comparison to men to the Spanish context. After a brief revision of the literature about the available data on feminine poverty in industrialized countries and its possible causes, those potentially guilty factors are put to the test in the Spanish case. A sample formed only by men and women who live alone or with dependent children has been taken from the EU-SILC of 2010 and, as of it, a regression model has concluded that there are factors that exclusively explain feminine poverty. Being a single mother, being young (between 16 and 25) and not having been born in Spain have all an important explicative power of feminine poverty while they are not significant factors of masculine poverty. If not having a job, having a low educational attainment and not receiving any individual allowance are taken also into account, that offers a set of factors which explain 26.8% of the cases of Spanish poor women. These data highlights the need of further research that may bring a higher explicative power.