. The unemployment rate declined steadily as well, except for upward shifts due to the late 1990s Asian Financial Crisis and … homeownership and declining unemployment are linked and that the causality runs from high homeownership leading to high unemployment … unemployment is statistically fragile, but a greater prevalence of freehold ownership and mortgaged ownership below the mean across …

producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment than most continental-European OECD-countries. It is argued that the …