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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...
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Spatial Mismatch: From the Hypothesis to the Theories
Selod, Harris; Gobillon, Laurent; Zenou, Yves - 2003
Since the 1950s, there has been a steady decentralization of entry-level jobs towards the suburbs of American cities, while racial minorities ?and particularly blacks? have remained in city centers. In this context, the spatial mismatch hypothesis argues that because the residential locations of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262106
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Immigration and housing rents in American cities
Saiz, Albert - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267724
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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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Childhood Homelessness and Adult Employment: The Role of Education, Incarceration, and Welfare Receipt
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Zhu, Anna - 2015
This paper analyzes the long-term consequences of children experiencing homelessness. Our primary goal is to assess the … importance of the potential pathways linking childhood homelessness to adult employment. We use novel panel data that link survey … and administrative data for a sample of disadvantaged adults who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307477
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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,...
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Excess Mortality, Institutionalization and Homelessness Among Status Indians in Canada
Akee, Randall K. Q.; Feir, Donna - 2016
mortality, institutionalization and homelessness for the largest Indigenous population in Canada from the ages of 5 to 64. We … institutionalization and homelessness, especially among men and as a result there are stark gender ratio imbalances among this population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653144
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Women's Homelessness: International Evidence on Causes, Consequences, Coping and Policies
Johnson, Guy; Ribar, David C.; Zhu, Anna - 2017
This paper reviews international evidence regarding women's homelessness. It discusses different definitions of … homelessness and how women are frequently part of the "hidden homeless" population and less a part of the unsheltered homeless … causes of homelessness are discussed, with evidence pointing to highly gendered patterns. The paper also describes the …
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A Closer Look: Proximity Boosts Homeless Student Performance in New York City
Cassidy, Michael T. - 2020
of proximity-elastic students benefit considerably more. Panel evidence demonstrates homelessness does not cause …
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Short Moves and Long Stays: Homeless Family Responses to Exogenous Shelter Assignments in New York City
Cassidy, Michael T. - 2020
large, disconnected from services, or from neighborhoods where homelessness is common – are especially sensitive to proxi …
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