Barriers to homeownership have traditionally been an important research and policy issue. In particular, the role of …-occupancy propensities is driven by risk aversion, as it is assumed in most of the theoretical models, or on the contrary it is driven by … income uncertainty and credit constraints exert a significant negative effect on the probability of homeownership. Our main …

Because of the many advantages of homeownership for immigrants and for the communities where immigrants reside, a … variety of countries have implemented policies that facilitate immigrant homeownership. Although these policies hinge on … immigration status, the link between immigration status and homeownership is yet to be carefully explored. Using a recent survey …

In this paper we investigate Oswald's hypothesis according to which higher homeownership rates increase aggregate … following an (exogenous) increase in homeownership rates. We show that (1) Oswald's hypothesis does not always hold as it … depends crucially on the importance of mobility costs; (2) while higher homeownership may harm macroeconomic labour market …

homeownership and declining unemployment are linked and that the causality runs from high homeownership leading to high unemployment … and mortgaged homeownership. Generally, the evidence that a declining homeownership rate contributes to a lower …

economic crisis. Spain is also a country which is characterised by a very high percentage of homeownership, with more than 83 …% of households being owner-occupiers. Both regional levels of unemployment and homeownership are known to be important … (2001 and 2011) to study the effect of homeownership and regional unemployment levels on both short and long distance …

In this paper we investigate Oswald's hypothesis according to which higher homeownership rates increase aggregate … following an (exogenous) increase in homeownership rates. We show that (1) Oswald's hypothesis does not always hold as it … depends crucially on the importance of mobility costs; (2) while higher homeownership may harm macroeconomic labour market …

for coping with uninsured risk. Consistent with a model of a farm household with a binding subsistence constraint, we show …, household responses to uninsured risk appear to be consistent with a simple framework in which household members are allocated …