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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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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....

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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,...

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Transaction costs in housing markets

Ommeren, Jos van - 2008

According to economic theory, there are no strong reasons to tax (or to subsidise) residential moves, although low levels of taxation may be potentially justified to deal with the presence of externalities and economic stability. This is in contrast to practise in most countries where...

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Compensation of regional unemployment in housing markets

Vermeulen, Wouter; Ommeren, Jos van - 2005

Why are regional unemployment differentials in Europe so persistent if, as the wage curve literature demonstrates, there is no compensation in labour markets? We hypothesize that workers in high-unemployment regions are compensated in housing markets. Modelling regional unemployment...

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Gentrification through the sale of rental housing? : evidence from Amsterdam

Rouwendal, Jan; Keus, Adriaan; Dekkers, Jasper - 2018 - This version: March 1, 2018

This paper analyzes the impact of the sale of rental housing in Amsterdam on the local housing market. This increases the supply of owner-occupied housing, but can also contribute to gentrification associated with the inflow of different household groups. Earlier literature focused on the former...

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