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Housing Policies in China: Issues and Options
Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This article consists in three parts. The first part deals with theory. We evaluate the pros and cons of government involvement in urban housing and of renting versus ownership. In the second part, we summarize the different housing policies that have been implemented in the United States,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868117
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Social Housing and Location Choices of Immigrants in France
Fougère, Denis; Kramarz, Francis; Rathelot, Roland; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Our study examines the empirical links between social housing policy and location choices of immigrants in France. More specifically, we characterize the main individual and contextual determinants of the probability for immigrants to live in a HLM (habitations à loyer modéré, dwelling with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868125
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Segregation, Choice Based Letting and Social Housing: How Housing Policy Can Affect the Segregation Process
van Ham, Maarten; Manley, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In this chapter we investigate the process of ethnic minority segregation in English social housing. Successive governments have expressed a commitment to the contradictory aims of providing greater choice – through the introduction of choice based letting – for households accessing an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652102
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Public Housing Magnets: Public Housing Supply and Immigrants' Location Choices
Verdugo, Gregory - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper investigates how a reform allowing immigrants with children in France access to public housing during the 1970s influenced their initial location choices across local labour markets. We find that cities with higher public housing supplies have a large 'magnetic effect' on the location...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011078391
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Migration Externalities in Chinese Cities
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Démurger, Sylvie; Li, Shi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives' labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large positive correlation of the city share of migrants with natives' wages. Using different sets of control variables and instruments suggests that the effect is causal. The large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212570
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Taking a Second Chance: Entrepreneurial Restarters in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822063
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How Rigid are Nominal Wages? Evidence and Implications for Germany
Knoppik, Christoph; Beissinger, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
Many of the recent attempts to find evidence of downward nominal wage rigidity in micro data have suffered from a number of problems, including composition bias and the effects of measurement error. In order to avoid these problems we explicitly model the determinants of wage changes and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822114
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The Persistent Decline in Unionization in Western and Eastern Germany, 1980-2004: What Can We Learn from a Decomposition Analysis?
Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
western Germany from 1980 to 2004 and in eastern Germany from 1992 to 2004. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and … worker (significant in western Germany only). A decomposition analysis shows that differences in union density over time and … between eastern and western Germany to a large degree cannot be explained by differences in the characteristics of employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822128
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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Bonin, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822158
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Do Works Councils Inhibit Investment?
Addison, John T.; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822189