Introduction / Tony Crook and Peter A. Kemp -- Germany / Peter A. Kemp and Stefan Kofner -- The Netherlands / Marietta E.A. Haffner -- Spain / Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway and María Teresa Sánchez-Martínez -- Denmark / Hans Skifter Andersen -- Norway / Mary-Ann Stamsø -- Australia / Kath Hulse...

In a world with complete markets and no transactions cost, the decision whether to rent or buy a home is separate from a household's professional income risk. If markets are incomplete and have frictions, however, profession- specific income risk, regional house price risk, and mobility needs...

Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...