Recent years have witnessed significant evolution in the structure and organization of China’s labor markets. While the majority of workers remain employed in public work units (state-owned enterprises and urban collectives), private sector employment in China hasexpanded significantly....

Immigration has long been a force that shapes the housing and labor markets in gateway metropolitan areas. Recently, the impact of immigration is being felt in an increasingly large number of metropolitan areas. This study focuses on the housing outcomes of households who currently live in the...

This paper estimates a proportional hazard model of duration of residence in rental housing. The study employs unique data from the BLS-CPI housing sample to construct the duration of rental occupancy for metropolitan areas over the 1987-1998 period. American Housing Survey and other...

This paper explicates the intra-metropolitan geography of minority homeownership. In so doing, the analysis applies individual level Census data from the Washington D.C., Chicago, and Los Angeles metropolitan areas to estimate three-level nested logit models (NMNL) of household mobility,...

This paper synthesizes elements of the traditional and contemporary theory of real estate markets to formulate an empirical framework for exploring metropolitan office rent processes. Such a framework is then applied to the analysis of office rents across eighteen U.S. office markets during...

Appropriately constructed measures of the quality of life and the quality of the business environment should be important determinants of the growth and composition of population across urban areas. This paper examines that question by extending theoretical measures of household quality of life...

Appropriately constructed measures of the quality of life and the quality of the business environment should be important determinants of the growth and composition of population across urban areas. This paper examines that question by extending theoretical measures of household quality of life...

This paper explores the relationship between land use patterns and individual mobility from a comparative international perspective. There is a vast literature on US automobile dependence. Major explanatory factors include: transportation, housing, land use and tax policy; per capita incomes;...

"The variation in default rates by region is quite substantial. Default rates in theNorthcentral states were about ve times as large as default rates in the Southeasternstates. These dierences reflect the credit rate risk associated with the real estatemarkets in each of the regions, the...