Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 2,163
Cover Image
Making use of home equity : the potential of housing wealth to enhance retirement security
Bravo, Jorge Miguel Ventura; Ayuso, Mercedes; Holzmann, … - 2019
data from the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) to analyse the household's wealth composition and … accumulation process in the euro area. To quantify the size of the housing wealth and its potential to enhance existing and future … then catalogue and discuss the many alternative options for managing and accessing housing wealth over the life cycle, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120692
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Data scarcity and poverty measurement
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter - 2021
Measuring poverty trends and dynamics is an important undertaking for poverty reduction policies, which is further highlighted by the SDG goal 1 on eradicating poverty by 2030. We provide a broad overview of the pros and cons of poverty imputation in data-scarce environments, update recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603834
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003375230
Cover Image
A convenient representation of the wealth distribution and more evidence on homeownership and wealth inequality in euro area countries
Biewen, Martin; Glaisner, Stefan; Kleimann, Rolf - 2021
the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). We also present more evidence on the role of homeownership …This note proposes a convenient graphical representation of the wealth distribution and illustrates it with data from … for wealth inequality in euro area countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698172
Cover Image
Do house prices affect consumption? : a re-assessment of the wealth hypothesis
Cristini, Annalisa; Sevilla, Almudena - 2013
-called wealth hypothesis. On the other hand, Attanasio, Blow, Hamilton, and Leicester (2009) find that house prices have the same …-cycle model) and not data aggregation considerations (household level data vs. synthetic cohort data) may be at the root of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792993
Cover Image
The effect of macroeconomic uncertainty on household spending
Coibion, Olivier; Georgarakos, Dimitris; Gorodnichenko, … - 2021
luxury goods. Moreover, uncertainty reduces household propensity to invest in mutual funds. These results support the notion … that macroeconomic uncertainty can impact household decisions and have large negative effects on economic outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012491975
Cover Image
Differences in euro-area household finances and their relevance for monetary-policy transmission
Hintermaier, Thomas; Koeniger, Winfried - 2019
, observed in the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for these countries. We then show that the heterogeneity in … household finances implies that responses of consumption to changes in the real interest rate and in house prices differ … substantially across countries, and within countries by household characteristics such as age, housing tenure, and asset positions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012133482
Cover Image
The household budget survey in Western Europe, 1795-1965
Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Newell, Andrew - 2018
We trace the development of the household expenditure survey from its conception during the Napoleonic Wars until the … 1960s. We have compiled the first historical bibliography of household budget surveys in Western Europe and, using the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820809
Cover Image
Hukou status, housing tenure choice and wealth accumulation in urban China
Liao, Yu; Zhang, Junfu - 2020
rural hukou owns 310 thousand yuan less housing wealth and 213 thousand yuan less total wealth than comparable household … reasons, rural- to-urban migrants are less likely to own housing units in cities and as a result accumulate less wealth. Our … empirical analysis examines a nationally representative household survey from 2013 and uses mother's hukou status as an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306350