Homeownership is believed to cause higher unemployment. This is because homeowners face higher mobility costs that … households. This facilitates a new test of the effects of homeownership on mobility and unemployment. We find only weak evidence … that homeowners are less willing to move and no evidence of higher unemployment risks relative to renters. …

costs and thereby regional mobility and unemployment. The paper analyzes the impact of symmetric and asymmetric shocks on … mobility and unemployment, and discusses effects of government intervention in the housing market. In addition, it is shown … higher levels of unemployment although home-owners tend to be unemployed less. The choice of housing tenure affects moving …

costs and thereby regional mobility and unemployment. The paper analyzes the impact of symmetric and asymmetric shocks on … mobility and unemployment, and discusses effects of government intervention in the housing market. In addition, it is shown … higher levels of unemployment although home-owners tend to be unemployed less. The choice of housing tenure affects moving …

The relationships among geographical mobility, unemployment and the value of owner-occupied housing are studied in an … equilibrium, unemployment rates for home-owners are higher than for otherwise identical renters. Unemployment and home … more mobile than owners, the impact of home-ownership on aggregate unemployment is quantitatively small. …

Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …

has shown that parents support their children financially through an unemployment spell. In this paper, we also provide …

, focussing on vacancy information obtained early in the unemployment spell. As in many other countries, the German activation … propensity score matching approach, we find that vacancy information increases the entry rate into unemployment predominantly by … through other channels. In case of continued unemployment, early vacancy information reduces the participation rate in ALMP …