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Differences in quality of life estimates using rents and home values

Winters, John V. - 2012

Quality of life differences across areas can be measured by differences in "real wages" where real wages are computed as nominal wages adjusted for the cost of living. Computing cost of living differences involves several important issues, including how housing prices should be measured....

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A longitudinal analysis of moving desires, expectations and actual moving behaviour

Coulter, Rory; Ham, Maarten van; Feijten, Peteke - 2010

Many theories of residential mobility contend that individuals express a sequence of moving desires, intentions and expectations prior to moving. Much research has investigated how individuals form these pre-move thoughts, with a largely separate literature examining actual mobility. Only a few...

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Segregation, choice based letting and social housing : how housing policy can affect the segregation process

Ham, Maarten van; Manley, David - 2012

based letting - for households accessing an increasingly marginalised social housing sector whilst also expressing a …

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A gramática da moradia no Complexo do Alema̋o : história, documentos e narrativas

Couto, Patricia Brandão; Rodrigues, Rute Imanishi - 2015

The Complexo do Alemão, as a place in Rio de Janeiro city, only acquired nominal, administrative and symbolic existence, from 1993, when it was recognized as a neighborhood. However, for its inhabitants, the particularities of the places that compound that administrative place, remain routed on...

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Socio-economic segregation in European capital cities : increasing separation between poor and rich

Musterd, Sako; Marcińczak, Szymon; Ham, Maarten van; … - 2015

Socio-economic inequality is on the rise in major European cities as are the worries about that, since this development is seen as threatening social cohesion and stability. Surprisingly, relatively little is known about the spatial dimensions of rising socioeconomic inequality. This paper...

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Homeownership and labour market behaviour : interpreting the evidence

Rouwendal, Jan; Nijkamp, Peter - 2008 - This version: November 3, 2008

This paper reviews the empirical research that has been generated by Oswald’s thesis, which claims that there is a causal relationship from homeownership to unemployment. The literature confirms a decreasing effect of homeownership on geographical mobility of workers, but does not in general...

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Transaction costs in housing markets

Ommeren, Jos van - 2008

According to economic theory, there are no strong reasons to tax (or to subsidise) residential moves, although low levels of taxation may be potentially justified to deal with the presence of externalities and economic stability. This is in contrast to practise in most countries where...

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Lessons learned from the largest tenure mix operation in the world : right to buy in the United Kingdom

Kleinhans, Reinout; Ham, Maarten van - 2013

(in terms of tenure and dwelling types) and as a means to establish a more socially mixed neighborhood population. Mixed …, removing the potential of negative neighborhood effects. By far the largest tenure mix operation in Europe is the Right to Buy …: residualisation, neighborhood stability, tenure mix and social mix, social interactions, and dwelling maintenance. Although we …

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Economic impacts of cultural diversity in the Netherlands : productivity, utility, and sorting

Bakens, Jessie; Mulder, Peter; Nijkamp, Peter - 2012

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The educational bias in commuting patterns : micro-evidence for the Netherlands

Groot, Stefan P. T.; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Veneri, Paolo - 2012

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