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On the Negative Relationship between Labor Income Uncertainty and Homeownership : Risk Aversion vs. Credit Constraints
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2004
Barriers to homeownership have traditionally been an important research and policy issue. In particular, the role of … income uncertainty and credit constraints exert a significant negative effect on the probability of homeownership. Our main …
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Income Volatility and Residential Mortgage Delinquency : Evidence from 12 EU Countries
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2004
We investigate the socio-economic determinants of mortgage delinquency in 12 EU countries and observe that income volatility significantly increases the mortgage delinquency risk. This pattern even holds for borrowers with higher-income profiles if volatility in income is high enough. From this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262138
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Homeownership, social capital and parental voice in schooling
Grimes, Arthur; Stillman, Steven; Young, Chris - 2011
homeownership experience high parental voting turnout in elections. We also investigate whether homeownership influences the … associations between homeownership and state-ownership rates and outcome variables. Our findings show no discernible effect of … homeownership on parental voting turnout in school elections after controls are added (contrary to the simple positive association …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286880
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Minority and immigrant homeownership experience: Evidence from the 2009 American Housing Survey
Mundra, Kusum - 2013
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 …
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Directed search in the housing market
Albrecht, James; Gautier, Pieter A.; Vroman, Susan - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269591
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Accounting for imputed and capital income flows in income inequality analyses
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2009
Using representative and consistent microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) from 1985-2007, we illustrate that capital income (CI = return on financial investments) and imputed rent (IR = return on investments in owner-occupied housing) have become increasingly important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324274
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Labour Income Uncertainty, Risk Aversion and Home Ownership
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2004
In this paper we investigate the effect of labour income uncertainty on the probability of home ownership in Germany and Spain. This study is motivated by two facts. Firstly, theoretical models provide ambiguous results in this issue. Secondly, there is limited previous empirical evidence and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261778
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Rooms of One?s Own : Gender, Race and Home Ownership as Wealth Accumulation in the United States
Sedo, Stanley A.; Kossoudji, Sherrie A. - 2004
less consistently predicted to have less equity than whites. We find that race gaps in homeownership, typically attributed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262140
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Housing, Mobility and Unemployment
Dohmen, Thomas J. - 2000
This paper develops a model that shows why high-skilled workers move more and are therefore unemployed less than low-skilled workers. The model can explain the paradoxical empirical regularity that higher owner-occupation rates are associated with higher levels of unemployment although...
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Home ownership, job duration, and wages
Munch, Jakob Roland; Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2006
We investigate the impact of home ownership on individual job mobility and wages in Denmark. We find that home ownership has a negative impact on job-to-job mobility both in terms of transition into new local jobs and new jobs outside the local labour market. In addition, there is a clear...
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