forces operate from relative house prices. Commuting, at least to contiguous regions, is often an alternative to migration … contiguous regions. This paper presents evidence on inter-regional commuting and migration in Great Britain which is broadly in …

This paper delves into the factors which determine the attractiveness of regions in Europe for migrants. Contrary to … analyzing net migration data for 133 European regions between 1990 and 2006. Our results show that, in addition to economic …

In this paper we investigate the impact of local quality of government on the attractiveness of European regions to … migrants. The analysis is based on panel data estimations of 254 regions for the period between 1995 and 2009. Different … effectiveness, on the ability of European regions to attract future residents. …

This paper models regional earnings and unemployment in the ten regions of Great Britain between 1972 and 1995, paying …

determine the main macroeconomic magnitudes. We do so by modeling family type as a stochastic process that affects households in …

heterogeneous, infinitely lived households and competitive housing and mortgage markets. Households have the option to default on … investment. The interest rate subsidy is a regressive policy: eliminating it benefits low-income and low-asset households who did … not own homes or had small mortgages, while lowering the welfare of high-income, high-asset households. …

Homestead exemptions to personal bankruptcy allow households to retain their home equity up to a limit determined at … the state level. Households that may experience bankruptcy thus have an incentive to bias their portfolios towards home … especially households with low net worth maintain a larger share of their wealth as home equity if a larger homestead exemption …