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Did the post-1986 decline in the homeownership rate benefit the New Zealand labour market? : a spatial-econometric exploration

Cochrane, William; Poot, Jacques - 2019

homeownership and declining unemployment are linked and that the causality runs from high homeownership leading to high unemployment … and mortgaged homeownership. Generally, the evidence that a declining homeownership rate contributes to a lower …

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Why do people still live in East Germany?

Hunt, Jennifer - 2000

In 1997 GDP per capita in East Germany was 57% of that of West Germany, wage rates were 75% of western levels, and the unemployment rate was at least double the western rate of 7.8%. One would expect that if capital flows and trade in goods failed to bring convergence, labor flows would respond,...

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Dialects, cultural identity, and economic exchange

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010

We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...

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Contextualised mobility histories of moving desires and actual moving behaviour

Coulter, Rory; Ham, Maarten van - 2011

Conceptually, adopting a life course approach when analysing residential mobility enables us to investigate how experiencing particular life events affects mobility decision-making and behaviour throughout individual lifetimes. Yet although a growing body of longitudinal research links mobility...

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Migration gravity, networks, and unemployment

Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Lindeman, Gary - 2022

We develop and estimate a theory-consistent gravity model for interregional migration flows in the presence of unemployment. Micro-founded in a setting where search friction regulates labor market transitions, we derive a migration gravity equation for bilateral mobility that embodies a...

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Housing satisfaction, homeownership and housing mobility : a panel data analysis for twelve EU countries

Diaz-Serrano, Luis (contributor) - 2006

"We investigate the determinants of housing satisfaction in twelve EU countries. To do so, we use panel data covering the period 1994-2001, which allows us to control for individual heterogeneity. We carry out separate estimates on the determinants of housing satisfaction for homeowners and for...

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Homeownership and labour market outcomes : micro versus macro performances

Beugnot, Julie; Lacroix, Guy; Charlot, Olivier - 2014

In this paper we investigate Oswald's hypothesis according to which higher homeownership rates increase aggregate … following an (exogenous) increase in homeownership rates. We show that (1) Oswald's hypothesis does not always hold as it … depends crucially on the importance of mobility costs; (2) while higher homeownership may harm macroeconomic labour market …

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Differences in quality of life estimates using rents and home values

Winters, John V. - 2012

Quality of life differences across areas can be measured by differences in "real wages" where real wages are computed as nominal wages adjusted for the cost of living. Computing cost of living differences involves several important issues, including how housing prices should be measured....

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China's "great migration" : the impact of the reduction in trade policy uncertainty

Facchini, Giovanni; Liu, Maggie Y.; Mayda, Anna Maria; … - 2018 - This draft: November 2017

We analyze the effect of China's integration into the world economy on workers in the country and show that one important channel of impact has been internal migration. Specifically, we study the changes in internal migration rates triggered by the reduction in trade policy uncertainty faced by...

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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024

We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We compare their wage assimilation to that of ethnic German immigrants from Eastern Bloc countries and international immigrants to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The...

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