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Short moves and long stays: homeless family responses to exogenous shelter assignments in New York City
Cassidy, Michael T. - 2020
Using an original administrative dataset in the context of a scarcity induced-natural experi-ment in New York City, I find that families placed in shelters in their neighborhoods of origin remain there considerably longer than those assigned to distant shelters. Locally-placed families also...
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Deindustrialization and tertiarization and the polarization of household incomes : the example of urban agglomerations in Germany
Goebel, Jan; Gornig, Martin - 2014
Deindustrialization and Tertiarization and the Polarization of Household Incomes: The Example of German Agglomerations The deindustrialization of the economy has left deep scars on cities. It is evident not only in the industrial wastelands and empty factory buildings scattered throughout the...
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Urban accessibility and spatial segregation in Brazilian cities : a configurational perspective
Barros, Ana Paula; Medeiros, Valério Augusto Soares de; … - 2017
This article investigates the use of the configurational variable, which deals with the city form-space relations regarding transportation issues, to study spatial segregation and urban accessibility in four Brazilian cities (Belém, Manaus, Recife and São Paulo), with a focus in precarious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012061053
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Who voted for Brexit? : individual and regional data combined
Alabrese, Eleonora; Becker, Sascha O.; Fetzer, Thiemo; … - 2018
Previous analyses of the 2016 Brexit referendum used region-level data or small samples based on polling data. The former might be subject to ecological fallacy and the latter might suffer from small-sample bias. We use individual-level data on thousands of respondents in Understanding Society,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011891769
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The effect of culture on home-ownership
Marcén, Miriam; Morale, Marina - 2018
In this paper, we analyze the role of culture in determining whether, or not, an individual is a homeowner. We use data on first-generation immigrants who arrived in the United States under 6 years old. Following the epidemiological approach, those early-arrival immigrants grew up under the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130605
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Housing equity, saving and debt dynamics over the Great Recession
Elming, William; Ermler, Andreas - 2016
and saving for young and old home-owners, both through a direct wealth eff ect and through housing equity serving as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011533763
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Quality of life in a dynamic spatial model
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Bald, Fabian; Roth, Duncan; … - 2020
We develop a dynamic spatial model in which heterogeneous workers are imperfectly mobile and forward-looking and yet all structural fundamentals can be inverted without assuming that the economy is in a stationary spatial equilibrium. Exploiting this novel feature of the model, we show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388100
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Estimating the cost of Irish housing for the CPI: a rental equivalence approach
Allen-Coghlan, Matthew; Coffey, Cathal; Martinez … - 2020
In this paper, we implement a new measure, the rental equivalence approach, in estimating the cost of Irish housing for … the purposes of the consumer price index (CPI). The cost of housing composes both the cost of owner occupier housing (OOH … earlier work, which reviewed the different, existing approaches taken by the CSO in estimating the cost of housing. The rental …
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Tax housing or land? : distributional effects of property taxation in Germany
Barbosa, Rafael; Skipka, Simon - 2019
Despite its theoretical merits, Land Value Taxation (LVT) is not a common policy instrument in most countries. One of the main reasons is uncertainty regarding its distributional impacts. This uncertainty has not been settled by the literature, due to a lack of appropriate data at the household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157296
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Factors influencing tenure choice in European countries
Bazyl, Monika - 2009
Homeownership rates are very different across European countries. They range from below 50% in Germany to over 80% in Greece, Spain or Ireland. However the differences lie not only in the overall homeownership rates but also in its structure, and this is the focus of this paper. Its aim is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635034