Health, rates and house rents

House prices and rents. The Italian experience

— The sale and lease real estate markets have cyclical developments which are often dissimilar in the short term and then take coincident trends in longer horizons. The imbalance in the relationship between prices and income is normally used by economists to determine any "housing bubbles". However, the structural limitations require caution in the use of the ratio between prices and rents as a...

The equilibrium effect of fundamentals on house prices and rents

Using a dynamic equilibrium model of housing tenure choice with fully specified markets for homeownership and rental properties, and endogenous house prices and rents, this paper studies the effect of fundamentals on equilibrium house prices and rents. Lower interest rates, relaxed lending standards, and higher incomes are shown to account for approximately one-half of the increase in the U.S. ...

Online Appendices: Implications of U.S. Tax Policy for House Prices, Rents, and Homeownership

Union Wages, Rents, and Skills in Health Care Labor Markets

This paper examines the effect of unions on the earnings of health care workers, with emphasis on the measurement and sources of union wage premiums. Using data constructed from the 1973 though 1994 Current Populations Surveys, standard union premium estimates are found to be substantially lower among health care workers than in other sectors of the economy, and to be smaller among higher skill...

A cross-national study of the association between natural resource rents and homicide rates, 2000–12

Countries that rely on natural resource rents (that is, the revenue generated from the sale of natural resources) may suffer from a variety of social problems. This exploratory study reviews the natural resource extraction literature to derive a 'natural resource rents-homicide' hypothesis. Data for 173 countries for the years 2000 to 2012 are examined to determine if there is a correlation bet...