Race, Immigrant Status, and Housing Tenure Choice

Housing Tenure Choice, Race and the Recommendations of the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform

Housing Tenure Choice in Transitional Urban China: A Multilevel Analysis

Using a 1996 national survey of housing in China and a multilevel modelling technique, we examine housing tenure choice in transitional urban China where households have been granted limited freedom of choice in the housing market since the housing reforms of 1988. We Ž nd that both market mechanisms and institutional forces affect households’ tenure choice in urban China. While some socioecono...

Housing Tenure in Ireland

This paper investigates the sources of the extremely high level of owner occupation in Ireland. After using census data to explore the evolution of this phenomenon, the paper makes a cross-country comparison of owner occupation within the EU-15. Explanations are found for the high level of owner occupation that go beyond fiscal privilege to include wider microeconomic factors, as well as histor...

Condominium and Cooperative Housing: Transactional Efficiency, Tax Subsidies, and Tenure Choice

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Housing Tenure and Labor Market Impacts:

We develop two search-theoretic models of the Oswald hypothesis, the idea that homeownership is linked to inferior labor market outcomes, and compare their predictions to three extant theories. The five models have surprisingly different predictions about the labor market at both the aggregate and micro levels. We estimate micro and US state-level regression models of wages and unemployment and...