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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 result we can draw the following conclusions: i) mortgage protection …
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Minority and immigrant homeownership experience: Evidence from the 2009 American Housing Survey
Mundra, Kusum - 2013
deterioration of underwriting practices and a boom in mortgage lending did not benefit minorities and immigrant homeownership in the … homeownership particularly if they obtained the mortgage during subprime boom period from 2004 - 2006. Hispanics, on the other hand … homeownership experience during the recent housing boom and housing bust was not homogenous across all groups in the U.S. The recent …
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Re-employment probabilities over the business cycle
Imbens, Guido W.; Lynch, Lisa M. - 2006
Using a Cox proportional hazard model that allows for a flexible time dependence in order to incorporate business cycle effects, we analyze the determinants of reemployment probabilities of young workers in the U.S. from 1978-1989. We find considerable changes in the chances of young workers...
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Occupational mobility and the business cycle
Moscarini, Giuseppe; Vella, Francis - 2008
Do workers sort more randomly across different job types when jobs are harder to find? To answer this question, we study the mobility of male workers among three-digit occupations in the matched files of the monthly Current Population Survey over the 1979-2004 period. We clean individual...
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The life-cycle and the business-cycle of wage risk: a cross-country comparison
Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - 2009
This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First, we find that household characteristics explain about...
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Last hired, first fired? Black-white unemployment and the business cycle
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2008
Past studies have tested the claim that blacks are the last hired during periods of economic growth and the first fired in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from this type of analysis must be viewed as tentative...
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Cyclical skill-biased technological change
Balleer, Almut; van Rens, Thijs - 2009
Over the past two decades, technological progress has been biased towards making skilled labor more productive. What does skill-biased technological change imply for business cycles? To answer this question, we construct a quarterly series for the skill premium from the CPS and use it to...
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Unemployment and endogenous reallocation over the business cycle
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo - 2013
We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous labor markets. Facing search frictions within markets and reallocation frictions between markets, workers endogenously separate from employment and endogenously reallocate between...
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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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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 …
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