Housing Allowances in Comparative Perspective

Does Housing Allowances affect Recipient’s Tenure choice in Sweden? - Evidence from a panel data study

Recent years have witnessed the increasing popularity of housing allowance as a major housing policy in countries across the world. However, the research on behavior impacts of housing benefits is still in paucity. In this paper, we present a tentative attempt to investigate an issue that not explored before: does higher level of welfare reliance on housing allowance promote or depress recipien...

Passives in Comparative Perspective

Fuel Poverty: Evidence from Housing Perspective

The literature has traditionally approached fuel poverty as a result of poverty. Fuel poor are those households who cannot pay fuel bill and have to live in cold ambient, with grave effects on their health. As fuel poverty is actually considered in poverty’s analysis, there is little discussion about whether homeowners (who own housing wealth and, theoretically, cannot be poor) could suffer thi...

Allocating Emissions Allowances

Economic Insecurity in Comparative Perspective

This paper examines the determinants of economic insecurity in advanced industrial societies. Based on data collected in 13 European democracies, it shows that people’s sense of economic security is affected by individual-level attributes such as human capital, recent experiences in the labor market and perceptions of the national economy, but also by cross-national differences in levels of soc...