We investigate the relationship between homeownership and life as well as housing satisfaction. Using panel data from … offsets the positive impact of homeownership. …

payments by owner-occupiers. We build a lifecycle model with uninsurable income risk and endogenous homeownership in order to …The homeownership rate in Germany is one of the lowest among advanced economies. To better understand this fact, we … analyze the role of three specific policies which discourage homeownership in Germany: an extensive social housing sector with …

payments by owner-occupiers. We build a lifecycle model with uninsurable income risk and endogenous homeownership in order to …The homeownership rate in Germany is one of the lowest among advanced economies. To better understand this fact, we … analyze the role of three specific policies which discourage homeownership in Germany: an extensive social housing sector with …

The homeownership rate in Germany is one of the lowest among advanced economies. To better understand this fact, we … evaluate the role of specific housing policies which tend to discourage homeownership. In comparison to other countries with … higher homeownership such as the United States, Germany has an extensive social housing sector with broad eligibility …

In this paper we investigate the effect of labour income uncertainty on the probability of homeownership in Germany and … that highlights the pivotal role of risk attitudes in the housing tenure decisions that also allow us to introduce the … preference for renting while those located in a positively skewed income distribution show a greater propensity for homeownership …