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Ethnic Discrimination Against Landlords in the Rental Housing Market

Sansani, Shahar - 2020

receive fewer inquiries than Jewish (non-minority) landlords for available apartments for rent. Two hundred and forty …-eight fictitious advertisements for apartments for rent were advertised, half with names signaling Jewish individuals and half with …

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Segregation, housing and neighborhood dissimilarities : a case study for the city of Bochum

Bonakdar, Said Benjamin - 2021

The rising concentration of low-income households and ethnic minorities has become an important policy issue in Germany. The Ruhr Area is particularly interesting, because it is one of the largest conurbations in Europe and experienced radical structural changes in the past, which are connected...

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Explaining regional disparities in housing prices across German districts

Brausewetter, Lars; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Trunzer, Johannes - 2022

Over the last decade, German housing prices have increased unprecedentedly. Drawing on quality-adjusted housing price data at the district level, we document large and increasing regional disparities: Growth rates were higher in 1) the largest seven cities, 2) districts located in the south, and...

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Explaining regional disparities in housing prices across German districts

Brausewetter, Lars; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Trunzer, Johannes - 2022

Over the last decade, German housing prices have increased unprecedentedly. Drawing on quality-adjusted housing price data at the district level, we document large and increasing regional disparities: growth rates were higher in 1) the largest seven cities, 2) districts located in the south, and...

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Gentrification and affordable housing policies

Borck, Rainald; Gohl, Niklas - 2021

temporary rent control policy in Berlin, Germany. We calibrate the model to key features of Berlin’s housing market, in … renter households lose. Our counterfactual analysis mimicks the rent control policy. We find that this policy reduces welfare …

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Airbnb and rents : evidence from Berlin

Duso, Tomaso; Michelsen, Claus; Schaefer, Maximilian; … - 2020

available for rent for a larger part of the year. Further analyses suggest some effect heterogeneity across the city. In …

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The early impact of COVID-19 on job losses among Black women in the United States

Holder, Michelle; Jones, Janelle; Masterson, Thomas - 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic seemingly appeared out of nowhere but changed nearly everything. As the pandemic unfolded, industries deemed nonessential were leveled. Many occupations in these industries are low-wage, and women constitute a greater share of America's low-wage labor force than men. Even...

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Immigration and housing rents in American cities

Saiz, Albert (contributor) - 2006

cities. The positive association of rent growth and immigrant inflows is pervasive in time series for all metropolitan areas …

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Hedonic price-rent ratios, user cost, and departures from equilibrium in the housing market

Hill, Robert J.; Syed, Iqbal A. - 2014

Disequilibrium in the housing market can be detected by comparing the actual price-rent ratio with its equilibrium … presence of omitted variables. Applying this method to a data set consisting of 730,000 individual price and rent transactions … we find that quality adjusting significantly reduces the actual price-rent ratio. We then insert these quality adjusted …

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How Predictable? Rent Growth and Returns in Sydney and Melbourne Housing Markets

Otto, Glenn - 2017

We construct rent-price ratios for houses and units in 82 local government areas in the Sydney and Melbourne markets … for the period 1985/86-2015. Using this annual data we employ long-horizon regression techniques and find that rent … the rent-price ratio implied by the present-value model, we find that variation in rental yields of units in Sydney is …

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