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We study the link between homeownership and entrepreneurship using a model of occupational choice and housing tenure … amplifying risk aversion, diminish the likelihood that homeowners start a business; (ii) the negative link between homeownership …
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economic crisis. Spain is also a country which is characterised by a very high percentage of homeownership, with more than 83 …% of households being owner-occupiers. Both regional levels of unemployment and homeownership are known to be important … (2001 and 2011) to study the effect of homeownership and regional unemployment levels on both short and long distance …
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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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paper we focus on homeownership among a subset of singles, the never married. In particular we investigate potential … differences in the relationship between several homeownership determinants for singles in comparison to the married. In addition …, we test for heterogeneity across race and skill level in the gender gap in homeownership and the probability of …
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We investigate the difference in homeownership rates between natives and first-generation immigrants in France, and how … this difference evolves over the 1975-1999 period, by using a large longitudinal dataset. We find that the homeownership … gap is large and has increased. Entries into the territory have a large negative effect on the evolution of homeownership …
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This paper investigates post-2000 trends in homeownership rates in the US by immigrant status, race, and ethnicity …. Homeownership rates for most groups examined rose during the housing boom of the early and mid-2000s but fell during and after the … housing bust. By 2015 homeownership rates had fallen below year 2000 levels for most groups but not all. In particular, some …
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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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The paper investigates the links between homeownership, employment and earnings for which no consensus exists in the …
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The demographic change underway, declining adequacy levels from traditional pay-as-you-go old-age social security systems, structural reforms in pension schemes and the reduction in the traditional family support have increased the need for additional private savings to cover the old age income...
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: homeownership. The 1999 rise in the French Delalande tax on firms that laid off older workers produced an unexpected exogenous rise …
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