This paper investigates the effects of home-ownership on labour mobility and unemployment duration. We distinguish between finding employment locally or by being geographically mobile. We find that home ownership hampers the propensity to move for job reasons but improves the chances of finding...

From an analysis of the economic voting of 17,100 Danes, it is demonstrated that the reaction is about three times larger to a deterioration in the economy than to an improvement. The results point to the importance of economic stability in the welfare function. It provides an explanation of the...