Showing 1 - 10 of 530
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 … and entrepreneurship is increasing in mortgage debt; and (iii) the negative relation is more pronounced for entrepreneurs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009753007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388131
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011672863
: homeownership. The 1999 rise in the French Delalande tax on firms that laid off older workers produced an unexpected exogenous rise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544998
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009568788
Because of the many advantages of homeownership for immigrants and for the communities where immigrants reside, a … variety of countries have implemented policies that facilitate immigrant homeownership. Although these policies hinge on … immigration status, the link between immigration status and homeownership is yet to be carefully explored. Using a recent survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009559130
homeownership experience during the recent housing boom and housing bust was not homogenous across all groups in the U.S. The recent … deterioration of underwriting practices and a boom in mortgage lending did not benefit minorities and immigrant homeownership in the … U.S. Blacks experienced significantly lower increase in homeownership than the whites but highest exit from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683009
We present empirical evidence on the heterogeneity in monetary policy transmission across countries with different home ownership rates. We use household-level data together with shocks to the policy rate identified from high-frequency data. We find that housing tenure reacts more strongly to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949270
the relative costs of homeownership versus renting, changes in household structure, and residential mobility toward larger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949393
hypothesis that homeownership probabilities can be affected by marriage market expectations and pessimistic marriage market … that up to a certain threshold, the probability of homeownership decreases when the marriage market prospect indicator …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011925156