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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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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003934200
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379608
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334349
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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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Flooded house or underwater mortgage? : the implications of climate change and adaptation on housing, income, and wealth
Straten, Yasmine van der - 2023
I study the implications of climate change and adaptation on housing and income, and wealth. I embed climate change in a redistributive growth model by introducing exposure of households and firms to extreme weather events, that damage their housing capital and physical capital, respectively....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014233371
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Are the home values and property tax burdens of permanent homeowners affected by growth in housing rentals and second homes : evidence based on big data from Florida
Ihlanfeldt, Keith Ray; Yang, Cynthia Fan - In: Journal of regional science 63 (2023) 2, pp. 470-502
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The effect of the Theo van Gogh murder on house prices in Amsterdam
Gautier, Pieter; Siegmann, Adriaan Hendrik; Vuuren, Aico van - 2007
This paper estimates the impact of the murder of film maker Theo vanGogh on November 2, 2004, on listed house prices in Amsterdam with aunique dataset. We use an hedonic-market approach to show that gen-eral attitudes towards Muslim minorities were negatively affected by themurder. Specifically,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350359