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Mortgage market maturity and homeownership inequality among young households: a five-country perspective
Bicakova, Alena; Sierminska, Eva M. - 2008
This paper uses the newly constructed Luxembourg Wealth Study data to document cross-country variation in homeownership … rates and the homeownership-income inequality among young households in Finland, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, and … relate it to cross-country differences in mortgage market maturity. We find that aside from Italy, homeownership rates and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276611
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Minority and immigrant homeownership experience: Evidence from the 2009 American Housing Survey
Mundra, Kusum - 2013
homeownership experience during the recent housing boom and housing bust was not homogenous across all groups in the U.S. The recent … deterioration of underwriting practices and a boom in mortgage lending did not benefit minorities and immigrant homeownership in the … U.S. Blacks experienced significantly lower increase in homeownership than the whites but highest exit from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291348
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Why should state government invest in college education? An equilibrium approach for the US in 2000
Shields, Michael P. - 2008
the existence of these positive externalities for the US in 2000 in estimates using the Current Population Survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268729
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Where Immigrants Settle in the United States
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2004
This paper is concerned with the location of immigrants in the United States, as reported in the 1990 Census. Where they settle has implications for the economic, social and political impact of immigrants. Immigrants are highly geographically concentrated. Compared to the native born they are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261987
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The New Directive on the Right of Citizens of the Union and their Family Members to Move and Reside Freely within the Territory of the Member States - What Changes Does it Bring?
de la Casa, Ana Herrera; Meduna, Michael - In: CESifo DICE Report 04 (2006) 4, pp. 3-7
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011696593
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The EU Directive on Free Movement and Access to Social Benefits
Hailbronner, Kay - In: CESifo DICE Report 04 (2006) 4, pp. 8-13
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011696594
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Dual Earners, Urban Labor Markets and Housing Demand
Rouwendal, Jan; van der Straaten, Willemijn - 2003
This paper replicates Costa and Kahn's analysis of locational choices of couples of highly educated persons for the Netherlands. We find increasing concentration of such power couples in the urbanized western part of the country. This trend occurs in spite of the absence of an urban wage premium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324969
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Homeownership and Demand for Long-Term Care
Rouwendal, Jan; Thomese, Fleur - 2010
Elderly home-owners get institutionalized less often than renters do. We hypothesize that housing tenure itself explains this behavior. Using longitudinal data from a Dutch community sample (N= 2,372) collected between 1992 and 2005, we find a negative effect of housing tenure on the probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325808
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Location, location, location: Extracting location value from house prices
Kolbe, Jens; Schulz, Rainer; Wersing, Martin; Werwatz, Axel - 2012
The price for a single-family house depends both on the characteristics of the building and on its location. We propose a novel semiparametric method to extract location values from house prices. After splitting house prices into building and land components, location values are estimated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318783
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Subprime mortgages, foreclosures, and urban neighborhoods
Gerardi, Kristopher S.; Willen, Paul S. - 2009
commonly believed, lead to a substantial increase in homeownership by minorities but instead generated turnover in properties …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292355