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Homeownership, Polarization, and Inequality

Parkhomenko, Andrii - 2021

In recent decades, the U.S. labor market has become more unequal and polarized: wage differences have widened and middle-income jobs have been replaced by low- and high-income jobs. The rise in inequality and polarization have been more pronounced in large cities. I argue that this can be...

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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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Inequality in the Sharing Economy

Stein, Gregory M. - 2020

The rise of the sharing economy benefits consumers and providers alike. Consumers can access a wider range of goods and services on an as-needed basis and no longer need to own a smaller number of costly assets that sit unused most of the time. Providers can engage in profitable short-term...

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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 …

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Imputed rent and income inequality : a decomposition analysis for Great Britain, West Germany and the USA

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2003

This article deals with income advantages derived from owner-occupied housing and their impact on the personal income distribution. Using micro-data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS), the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), and the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) we find...

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The personal distribution of income and imputed rent : a cross-national comparison for the UK, West Germany, and the USA

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2002

This article deals with income advantages derived from owner occupied housing (Imputed Rent, IR) and their impact on the personal income distribution. Following a brief description of different methods with which to calculate IR in household surveys, we conduct a cross-national comparative study...

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