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driven by population growth and limited housing supply, led to a deterioration in affordability of housing, in particular for …
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Housing is key for well-being and for spatial and social mobility. In India, the housing market is characterised by … excess demand for affordable dwellings, a small rental market and an oversupply of high-end housing, especially in urban …
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Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
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housing-related policies and conditions but also other relevant policy areas. The analysis uses household-level micro datasets … evidence strongly supports the view that housing conditions and structural policies influence people’s decisions and … possibilities to move. A more responsive housing supply is associated with higher residential mobility, suggesting that reforming …
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COVID-19 lockdowns have radically changed the working arrangements for millions of workers. But who are the workers best positioned to work from home? Drawing on data from the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), we show that workers possessing higher levels of skills are significantly more...
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Housing conditions in Belgium are among the best in OECD countries according to the Better Life Index, as dwellings are … of high quality and large, and housing costs are average. However, the steep increase in house prices since 2003 has put … market access for first-time buyers under pressure. Housing affordability is also deteriorating for the poor, as demand for …
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policymakers at the current juncture and outlines responses in terms of monetary, micro and macro-prudential, and housing policies. …
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Since 2000, real estate prices in Switzerland have risen rapidly. By some measures, between 2000 and 2014 apartment prices almost doubled, while those of single-family homes increased by around 60%. Price rises have varied considerably across cantons. Transactions activity in the sector has been...
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debt levels are matched by large assets, notably in form of pension savings, there are feedback loops with the housing … environment may contribute to the building up of risks, notably in the housing market. Given the on-going recovery of the housing … the fiscal system. In addition, further liberalising the private rental market would help create a more dynamic housing …
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Chile has made considerable progress in promoting access to affordable good-quality housing over the past two decades …. The proportion of households that have no housing or that live in sub-standard housing has fallen from 23% in 1992 to 10 …% in 2011 (Ministerio Desarrollo Social 2013). Nevertheless, the incidence of poor quality housing and overcrowding is …
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