causal relationship from homeownership to unemployment. The literature confirms a decreasing effect of homeownership on …, there are clear indications that there is also an effect of homeownership on the search for jobs on the local labour market …

mitigate house price growth but increase rents. Homeownership rates drop, and young and middle-income households are negatively …

Homeownership rates differ widely across European countries. We document that part of this variation is driven by … homeownership rates per household, homeownership rates per individual are very similar during the first part of the life cycle. To … understand these patterns, we build an overlapping-generations model where individuals face uninsurable income risk and make …

Homeownership rates differ widely across European countries. We document that part of this variation is driven by … homeownership rates per household, homeownership rates per individual are very similar during the first part of the life cycle. To … understand these patterns, we build an overlapping-generations model where individuals face uninsurable income risk and make …

Homeownership rates differ widely across European countries. We document that part of this variation is driven by … homeownership rates per household, homeownership rates per individual are very similar during the first part of the life cycle. To … understand these patterns, we build an overlapping-generations model where individuals face uninsurable income risk and make …

risks in retirement. Our life cycle model captures these links in order to explain why homeownership in Germany is so low …. Our simulation results indicate that the public long-term care as well as the pension system reduce the homeownership rate …

payments by owner-occupiers. We build a lifecycle model with uninsurable income risk and endogenous homeownership in order to …The homeownership rate in Germany is one of the lowest among advanced economies. To better understand this fact, we … analyze the role of three specific policies which discourage homeownership in Germany: an extensive social housing sector with …