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Homeownership and labour market behaviour : interpreting the evidence
Rouwendal, Jan; Nijkamp, Peter - 2008 - This version: November 3, 2008
causal relationship from homeownership to unemployment. The literature confirms a decreasing effect of homeownership on …, there are clear indications that there is also an effect of homeownership on the search for jobs on the local labour market …
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Regional economic impacts of immigration : a review
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009 - Version: 23 July 2009
A burgeoning literature has emerged during the last two decades to assess the economic impacts of immigration on host countries. In recent years much research has been at the national level under the assumption that impacts in open regions may dissipate through adjustment processes such as...
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Differences in employment outcomes for college town stayers and leavers
Winters, John V. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-22
New college graduates must choose whether to stay in the geographic area where they completed their degree or move to a new location to begin their careers. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as “college towns” and investigates differences in employment outcomes between college...
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Migration and aspirations : are migrants trapped on a hedonic treadmill?
Czaika, Mathias; Vothknecht, Marc - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-21
Based on longitudinal information from two waves of the Indonesian Family and Life Survey (IFLS) in 2000 and 2007, we find evidence that migrants are self-selected along higher individual aspirations acquired (or, inherited) before migration. About 70 per cent of aspiration differentials can be...
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Immigration and wages : new evidence from the African American Great Migration
Gardner, John - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 22, pp. 1-45
During the African American Great Migration, millions of blacks left the Southern USA in favor of cities in the North. Despite the social and economic consequences of this migration, the question of its impacts on labor markets in the North has largely been overlooked in the literature. In this...
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Does land use planning shape regional economies?
Vermeulen, Wouter; Ommeren, Jos van - 2008
Why has job growth over the past decades been weaker in the Dutch Randstad area than in surrounding regions? In a simultaneous equations analysis, we find that employment adjusts to the regional supply of labour. Net internal migration is predominantly determined by regional housing supply and...
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Directed search in the housing market
Albrecht, James W.; Gautier, Pieter; Vroman, Susan B. - 2010
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Directed search in the housing market
Albrecht, James W.; Gautier, Pieter; Vroman, Susan B. - 2009
In this paper, we present a directed search model of the housing market. The pricing mechanism we analyze reflects the way houses are bought and sold in the United States. Our model is consistent with the observation that houses are sometimes sold above, sometimes below and sometimes at the...
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Dual earners, urban labor markets and housing demand
Rouwendal, Jan; Straaten, J. Willemijn van der - 2003
This paper replicates Costa and Kahn's analysis of locational choices of couples of highly educated persons for the Netherlands. We find increasing concentration of such power couples in the urbanized western part of the country. This trend occurs in spite of the absence of an urban wage premium...
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Nevertheless, they persist : cross-country differences in homeownership behavior
Huber, Stefanie J.; Schmidt, Tobias - 2022 - Version: November 26, 2021
Cross-country differences in homeownership rates are large and persistent over time, with homeownership rates ranging … across generations-may value homeownership differently, and could thus be a driving demand factor of the homeownership … decision. To isolate the effect of cultural preferences regarding homeownership from the impact of other economic factors, we …
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