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Policies for inclusive urbanisation in China

Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - 2013

Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...

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Housing and inequality : the case of Luxembourg and its cross-border workers

Claveres, Guillaume; Mathä, Thomas; Pulina, Giuseppe; … - 2020

The rate of homeownership is close to the OECD average in Luxembourg. However, strong house price increases, mainly …

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Housing, wealth accumulation and wealth distribution : evidence and stylized facts

Causa, Orsetta; Woloszko, Nicolas; Leite, David - 2019

questions: i) How is homeownership and housing tenure distributed across the population along various socio … socio-economic groups? What is the impact of mortgage debt on access to homeownership and wealth accumulation, and on debt … residential mobility? iv) Is there a link between homeownership and wealth inequality? Between inequality in housing wealth and in …

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Should I stay or should I go? : housing and residential mobility across OECD countries

Causa, Orsetta; Pichelmann, Jacob - 2020

This paper delivers new evidence on the individual and policy drivers of residential mobility, covering a wide range of housing-related policies and conditions but also other relevant policy areas. The analysis uses household-level micro datasets allowing for an investigation of the drivers of...

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The decline in labour mobility in the United States : insights from new administrative data

Azzopardi, Damien; Fareed, Fozan; Hermansen, Mikkel Nørlem - 2020

Job mobility is essential for a well-functioning market economy and for individual workers to boost their wages. This paper provides a re-assessment of job mobility in the United States during 2000-2018, based on a novel administrative data source covering almost all workers and job flows....

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Sustaining the economic expansion in New Zealand

Luu, Corinne - 2015

The NZ economy has performed well over the past few years, having achieved relatively strong GDP and employment growth. However, some constraints to sustaining this momentum beyond the short term are emerging in the fields of skills, housing and urban infrastructure. Skills shortages have risen...

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Drivers of homeownership rates in selected OECD countries

Andrews, Dan; Caldera Sánchez, Aida - 2011

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Improving well-being through better housing policy in New Zealand

Barker, Andrew - 2019

New Zealand’s housing supply has not kept pace with rising demand, including from net immigration. Affordability has worsened, particularly for low-income renters. Government action is underway to allow new housing through initiatives such as the Urban Growth Agenda, KiwiBuild and the Housing...

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The drivers of Norway's house prices

Sila, Urban - 2020

In this paper, we explore the drivers of house prices in Norway, using a cross-country panel framework. Empirical results confirm that house prices are determined by numerous demand and supply factors, including income, demographics, macroeconomic conditions, stock of housing and institutional...

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Providing the right skills to all in China : from "made in China" to "created in China"

Molnár, Margit; Koen, Vincent - 2015

China has made impressive strides in education in recent decades, even though the accumulation of human capital has lagged behind that of physical capital. Going forward, access to and quality of education will be key to sustain economic convergence with the most advanced economies and to offset...

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