We investigate the employment effects of living in affordable housing. We develop a unique administrative data set of labor market biographies linked to affordable housing projects in five German cities. This allows us to follow individuals in affordable housing over almost 20 years. The funding...

We use a search and matching model to study the heterogeneous welfare effects of housing market illiquidity due to mortgage lock-in over the lifecycle. We find that younger home buyers are disproportionately affected by mortgage lock-in, which disrupts their typical pattern of moving to...

In this study, we conduct an email correspondence test to examine ethnic discrimination against males with different immigration backgrounds (Serbian, Turkish/Muslim and Syrian/Muslim) in the Austrian rental housing market. In particular, we investigate the effect that immigrant generation has...

Since the beginning of the 2000s, both the demographic structure and pension system in China has experienced a dramatic change, which profoundly impacts the housing market. Since the land profit occupies a large ratio of the government revenue, China’s housing market interacts with the...

Last year, the Russian real estate market was fully affected by the shocks that hit the domestic economy, passing through several phases. The first months were marked by the continued growth of real estate prices with a shortage of supply. The mechanism of government mortgage support worked out...

This paper explores the effects of weather-induced rural-urban migration on urban labor and housing markets in Brazil. In order to identify causal effects, it uses weather shocks to the rural municipalities of origin of migrants. We show that larger migration shocks led to an increase in...

Die Entwicklung des Wohnungsmarkts steht derzeit besonders im politischen wie gesellschaftlichen Fokus. Zum einen sind die Mieten und Immobilienpreise vielerorts in den vergangenen Jahren deutlich gestiegen. Eine Ursache hierfür ist, dass die in Deutschland lebende Bevölkerung nicht wie...