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Homeownership and Labour Market Behaviour: Interpreting the Evidence
Rouwendal, Jan; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
This paper reviews the empirical research that has been generated by Oswald’s thesis, which claims that there is a causal relationship from homeownership to unemployment. The literature confirms a decreasing effect of homeownership on geographical mobility of workers, but does not in general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144526
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The Effect of the Theo van Gogh Murder on House Prices in Amsterdam
Gautier, Pieter A.; Siegmann, Arjen; Vuuren, Aico van - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
This paper estimates the impact of the murder of film maker Theo van
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042229
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The Effect of the Theo van Gogh Murder on House Prices in Amsterdam
Gautier, Pieter A.; Siegmann, Arjen; Vuuren, Aico van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
This paper estimates the impact of the murder of film maker Theo vanGogh on November 2, 2004, on listed house prices in Amsterdam with aunique dataset. We use an hedonic-market approach to show that gen-eral attitudes towards Muslim minorities were negatively affected by themurder. Specifically,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255501
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Transaction Costs in Housing Markets
Ommeren, Jos van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
According to economic theory, there are no strong reasons to tax (or to subsidise) residential moves, although low levels of taxation may be potentially justified to deal with the presence of externalities and economic stability. This is in contrast to practise in most countries where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255824
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Economic Impacts of Cultural Diversity in the Netherlands: Productivity, Utility, and Sorting
Bakens, Jessie; Mulder, Peter; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
This discussion paper resulted in an article in the <I>Journal of Regional Science</I> (2013). Volume 53, issue 1, pages 8-36.<P> This paper identifies the role of cultural diversity in explaining spatial disparities in wages and housing prices across Dutch cities, using unique individual panel data of...</p></i>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256607
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Homeownership and Labour Market Behaviour: Interpreting the Evidence
Rouwendal, Jan; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
This discussion paper resulted in an article in <I>Environment and Planning A</I> (2010). Volume 42, issue 2, pages 419-433.<P> This paper reviews the empirical research that has been generated by Oswald’s thesis, which claims that there is a causal relationship from homeownership to unemployment. The...</p></i>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257004
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The Educational Bias in Commuting Patterns: Micro-Evidence for the Netherlands
Groot, Stefan P.T.; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Veneri, Paolo - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
This study analyses the relation between education and commuting behaviour of Dutch workers. Results show that, ceteris paribus, higher educated workers commute further, both in terms of distance and time. In addition, higher educated workers are more frequent users of public transport and of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257066
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Transaction Costs in Housing Markets
Ommeren, Jos van - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
According to economic theory, there are no strong reasons to tax (or to subsidise) residential moves, although low levels of taxation may be potentially justified to deal with the presence of externalities and economic stability. This is in contrast to practise in most countries where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504917
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Homeownership and Demand for Long-Term Care
Rouwendal, Jan; Thomese, Fleur - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
Elderly home-owners get institutionalized less often than renters do. We hypothesize that housing tenure itself … find a negative effect of housing tenure on the probability of moving to a nursing home between two subsequent waves. This …. We could not reduce this finding to a variety of explanations directly related to housing tenure. There was no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784445
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Asymmetric Information and List Price Reductions in the Housing Market
Wit, Erik R. de; Klaauw, Bas van der - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
In housing markets with asymmetric information list prices may signal unobserved properties of the house or the seller. Asymmetric information is the starting point of many models for the housing market. In this paper, we estimate the causal effect of list-price reductions to test for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838556