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Spatial mismatch: from the hypothesis to the theories

Gobillon, Laurent (contributor); Selod, Harris (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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A longitudinal analysis of violence and housing insecurity

Diette, Timothy M.; Ribar, David C. - 2015

Violence and housing insecurity are horrible events that may be intertwined, with violence possibly forcing victims to abandon their accommodations and housing insecurity depriving people of the safety of a home or placing them in compromised circumstances. This study uses national, prospective,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376249

A journey home : what drives how long people are homeless?

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hérault, Nicolas; Scutella, Rosanna - 2014

This paper uses survival analysis to model exits over time from two alternative notions of homelessness. We are unique … out of homelessness fall with age and with the education level of mothers. Women are more likely than men to exit … homelessness when it is broadly conceived, but appear to be less likely to exit when it is narrowly defined. Finally, higher …

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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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Immigration and housing rents in American cities

Saiz, Albert (contributor) - 2006

Is there a local economic impact of immigration? Immigration pushes up rents and housing values in US destination cities. The positive association of rent growth and immigrant inflows is pervasive in time series for all metropolitan areas. I use instrumental variables based on a "shift-share" of...

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Detecting mortgage delinquencies

Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

Economic hardship is strongly reflected by the housing market. It is the concern of much research, but its analysis is often obstructed by insufficient lagged data. This paper evaluates search intensity for "hardship letter" from Google Insights to detect ensuing mortgage delinquencies. Such...

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Housing and the labor market : time to move and aggregate unemployment

Rupert, Peter; Wasmer, Etienne - 2009

The Mortensen-Pissarides model with unemployment benefits and taxes has been able to account for the variation in unemployment rates across countries but does not explain why geographical mobility is very low in some countries (on average, three times lower in Europe than in the U.S.). We build...

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Housing search frictions : evidence from detailed search data and a field experiment

Bergman, Peter; Chan, Eric; Kapor, Adam - 2020

This paper shows that imperfect information about school quality causes low-income families to live in neighborhoods with lower-performing, more segregated schools. We randomized the addition of school quality information onto a nationwide website of housing listings for families with housing...

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The understated "housing shortage" in the United States

Corinth, Kevin; Dante, Hugo - 2022

predictions of economic theory, our estimated housing shortage is uniformly low in areas with low regulation but varies in areas …

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On amenities, natural advantage and agglomeration

Krupka, Douglas J. (contributor) - 2008

A prominent feature of economic geography in America is the positive correlation amongst local incomes, housing costs and city population. This paper embeds a "black box" agglomeration economy within a more neoclassical general equilibrium model of local wages, rents and population to assess the...

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