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How do stamp duties affect the housing market?

Davidoff, Ian; Leigh, Andrew - 2013

Land transfer taxes are a substantial portion of the cost of moving house in many developed countries. Since stamp duties are endogenous with respect to the house price, we create an instrumental variable that is the stamp duty on a property, given that postcode's starting house price and the...

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Policies for inclusive urbanisation in China

Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - 2013

families to education, health and other social services must continue to improve, in particular via further changes to the …

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The capitalization of non-market attributes into regional housing rents and wages : evidence on German functional labor market areas

Hiller, Norbert; Lerbs, Oliver - 2014

This paper extends existing research on regional quality of life in Germany by newly estimating the role of region-specific (dis-)amenities in the determination of regional housing rents and wages. Different from previous studies, the empirical analysis draws on functional labor market areas...

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Housing markets and housing policies in India

Tiwari, Piyush; Rao, Jyoti - 2016

Issues of housing in India are synonymous with ignorance of housing in active government involvement at the policy and program formulation levels. They are also due to the problems that unplanned urbanization, income disparity, poverty, illiteracy, and unemployment brought. These issues...

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How does a change in risk perception affect the housing market? : evidence from an industrial accident in France

Bléhaut, Marianne - 2014 - Preliminary version

In 2001, the AZF plant exploded in Toulouse (France). The accident was unexpected, it strongly damaged local housing and benefited from a wide media coverage. It provides a rare opportunity to analyze the consequences of a shift in risk perception on housing markets and neighborhoods subject to...

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Gentrification and displacement in English cities

Waights, Sevrin - 2014 - Version: January 2014

This paper uses the British Household Panel Survey (1991-2008) and the UK Census (waves 1991, 2001 and 2011) to examine the association between gentrification and displacement in English cities. Gentrification is the phenomena of a large and relatively sudden in-migration of wealthy or middle...

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Location choices of highly educated foreign workers : the importance of urban amenities

Levkovich, Or; Rouwendal, Jan - 2014 - This version: June 29th 2014

Current developed economies' growth becomes increasingly dependent on the performance of innovation and skill-intensive industries. Therefore, the ability of cities to attract skilled or highly-educated individuals becomes more and more important for their growth and economic development. In...

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On the dynamics of segregation

Dahlberg, Matz; Fredriksson, Peter; Jofre-Monseny, Jordi - 2011 - Work in progress.

dimensions. School grades of white students are lower in neighborhoods that have tipped, suggesting that families with kids that …

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Income taxes, property values, and migration

Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - 2003

We consider taxation by a Leviathan government and by a utilitarian government in the presence of heterogeneous locations within a country, when migration from one country to another is and is not possible. In a closed economy, a utilitarian government may transfer income from the poor to the...

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Homeownership : low household mobility, volatile housing prices, high income dispersion

Ortalo-Magné, François; Rady, Sven - 2002

We develop a dynamic stochastic equilibrium model of two locations within a city where heterogeneous households make … joint location and tenure mode decisions. To investigate the effect of homeownership on equilibrium prices and allocations … three results. First, homeownership enables more households to remain in the more desirable location at the expense of …

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