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Do reported attitudes towards Immigrants predict ethnic discrimination?
Carlsson, Magnus; Eriksson, Stefan - 2012
Reported attitudes towards immigrants are sometimes used as a proxy for ethnic discrimination. However, there is little empirical evidence of a link between attitudes and discrimination. In this paper, we use survey data on people's attitudes towards immigrants combined with data on ethnic...
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Early interventions and disability insurance: Experience from a field experiment
Engström, Per; Hägglund, Pathric; Johansson, Per - 2012
This paper estimates the effects of early interventions in the Swedish sickness insurance system. The aim of the interventions is to screen and, further to, rehabilitate sick listed individuals. We find that the early interventions - in contrast to what is expected - increase the inflow into...
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Does privatisation of vocational rehabilitation improve labour market opportunities? Evidence from a field experiment in Sweden
Jönsson, Lisa; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - 2012
This paper analyses if privatisation of vocational rehabilitation can improve labour market opportunities for … rehabilitation. We find no differences in employment rates following rehabilitation between individuals who received rehabilitation … by private and public providers. Also the average cost of rehabilitation was essentially equal for the two types of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321163
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New flight regimes and exposure to aircraft noise: Identifying housing price effects using a ratio-of-ratios approach
Boes, Stefan; Nüesch, Stephan - 2009
In October 2003, a new flight regime was introduced at Zurich airport that significantly changed the levels of noise pollution in surrounding communities. We investigate the impact of the new flight policy on apartment prices using a hedonic price model and a non-linear difference-in-differences...
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Turnover and Price in the Housing Market: Causation, Association or Independence?
Hallberg, Daniel; Johansson, Per - 2002
We give general conditions for the data generating process to facilitate the testing of structural dependence of turnover on the average (or median) price in the homogenous housing market. Furthermore, the implications of aggregation over sub-markets is studied. A plausible explanation of the...
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Demystifying the challenges of low-income housing delivery in urban India: The case of Delhi
Haque, Ismail; Kotal, Malay - 2022
Increased urbanisation poses serious challenges to adequate housing in the cities of the Global South. Many have focused on the issues of access to serviced land, housing finance, and public subsidy in augmenting the supply of low-income affordable housing while ignoring the criticality of...
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Fiskalische Spielräume für eine offensive Wohnungsbaupolitik
Heine, Michael; Herr, Hansjörg - 2022
Fiskalpolitik ist ein zentraler Bereich makroökonomischer Politik. Die Schuldenbremse in Deutschlands und der Fiskalpakt im Bereich der Europäischen Währungsunion haben den Spielraum für die Fiskalpolitik dysfunktional und schädlich eingeschränkt. Als Hintertür verbleiben in Deutschland...
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The price of inattention: Evidence from the Swedish housing market
Repetto, Luca; Solis, Alex - 2017
Do behavioral biases a affect prices in a high-stake market? We study the role of left digit bias in the purchase of an apartment, one of the most important assets in a household's portfolio. Left-digit bias is the inability to fully process digits after the first, perceiving prices just below a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012013502
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Here lives a wealthy man: Price rigidity and predictability in luxury housing markets
Levy, Daniel C.; Snir, Avichai - 2018
We use novel and unique data to study the effect of price changes in the market for luxury and middle class homes. We find that luxury home sales respond less to price changes than the middle-class home sales; in the market for luxury homes, past prices affect current prices; luxury home prices...
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Mental Accounting in the Housing Market
Almenberg, Johan; Karapetyan, Artashes - 2010
We report evidence that salience may have economically significant effects on homeowners' borrowing behavior, through a bias in favour of less salient but more costly loans. We outline a simple model in which some consumers are biased. Under plausible assumptions, the bias may affect prices in...
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