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Immigration and housing booms: Evidence from Spain

Luna, Libertad González; Ortega, Francesc - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2009

We estimate empirically the effect of immigration on house prices and residential construction activity in Spain over … the period 1998-2008. This decade is characterized by both a spectacular housing market boom and a stunning immigration … wave. We exploit the variation in immigration across Spanish provinces and construct an instrument based on the historical …

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Immigrant language barriers and house prices

Fischer, Andreas M. - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 42 (2012) 3, pp. 389-395

immigration inflow from a non common language country equal to 1% of an area's population is coincident with an increase in prices …

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Immigration and Swiss House Prices

Fischer, Andreas; Degen, Kathrin - Schweizerische Nationalbank (SNB) - 2010

This study examines the behavior of Swiss house prices to immigration flows for 85 districts from 2001 to 2006. The … results show that the nexus between immigration and house prices holds even in an environment of low house price inflation …, nationwide rent control, and modest immigration flows. An immigration inflow equal to 1% of an area's population is coincident …

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Immigration and housing booms : evidence from Spain

González, Libertad; Ortega, Francesc - 2009

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Ethnic identity and immigrant homeownership

Constant, Amelie; Roberts, Rowan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007

Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...

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International migration and regional housing markets : evidence from France

Albis, Hippolyte d’; Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane - In: International regional science review : IRSR ; an … 42 (2019) 2, pp. 147-180

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Can public housing decrease segregation? : lessons and challenges from non-European immigration in France

Verdugo, Gregory; Toma, Sorana - 2018

Recent decades have seen a rapid increase in the share of non-European immigrants in public housing in Europe, which has led to concern regarding the rise of "ghettos" in large cities. Using French census data over three decades, we examine how this increase in public housing participation has...

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International migration and regional housing markets : evidence from France

Albis, Hippolyte d’; Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane - 2017

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Immigration and the access to social housing in the UK

Battiston, Diego; Dickens, Richard; Manning, Alan; … - 2014

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Public housing magnets : public housing supply and immigrants' location choices

Verdugo, Gregory - 2014

This paper investigates how a reform allowing immigrants with children in France access to public housing during the 1970s influenced their initial location choices across local labour markets. We find that cities with higher public housing supplies have a large "magnetic effect" on the location...

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