, we document the association between house prices and homeownership at age thirty. We then use synthetic cohort methods to …

In this paper we investigate Oswald's hypothesis according to which higher homeownership rates increase aggregate … following an (exogenous) increase in homeownership rates. We show that (1) Oswald's hypothesis does not always hold as it … depends crucially on the importance of mobility costs; (2) while higher homeownership may harm macroeconomic labour market …

homeownership and declining unemployment are linked and that the causality runs from high homeownership leading to high unemployment … and mortgaged homeownership. Generally, the evidence that a declining homeownership rate contributes to a lower …

The paper investigates the links between homeownership, employment and earnings for which no consensus exists in the …

Barriers to homeownership have traditionally been an important research and policy issue. In particular, the role of … income uncertainty and credit constraints exert a significant negative effect on the probability of homeownership. Our main …

We investigate whether initial differences in speed of entry into homeownership lead to longlasting differences in …