Considerable portion of housing sector from gross domestic product indicates relationship between housing sector and macroeconomics. This paper focuses on consumption demand of housing and variables that can affect it and represents a theoretical framework for changes of housing prices regarding variables such as income per capita, liquidity and land per capita, the present paper studies effect...

During the last few decades most developing countries have experienced a rapid growth in population which has resulted in a rapid urbanisation in the form of an expansion of existing towns, coupled with an increasing dependence upon developed countries for implementation of new housing programmes. The purpose of this study is to point out the problems of public housing, to identify the relation...

The purpose of this study is to determine the cost-effectiveness of various ways of providing housing services for low-income families through the leased public housing approach, whereby a local housing authority leases from the private sector and·sublets to tenants for no more than 25 percent of their adjusted incomes. The paper compares the cost-effectiveness of programs involving the leasing...

Excerpt] Employee turnover has long plagued the hospitality industry. In the lodging segment, turnover rates have been shown to average about 60 percent annually for line-level employees (Woods, Heck, and Sciarini 1998) and about 25 percent for managerial positions (Smith Travel Research, Tracey, and Tews 2002). This concern is even greater in other hospitality contexts, such as quick-service r...

Agglomeration is a location pattern frequently observed in service industries such as hotels. This paper empirically examines if agglomeration facilitates tacit collusion in the lodging industry using a quarterly dataset of hotels that operated in rural areas across Texas between 2003 and 2005. We jointly model a price and occupancy rate equation under a switching regression model to endogenous...

PURPOSE To test the hypothesis that adolescents who carry lethal weapons are more likely to engage in violent behavior than adolescents who do not carry weapons. DESIGN Cross-sectional Survey. SUBJECTS Black adolescents (N = 225) from a lower socioeconomic (SES) background living in or around nine Housing and Urban Development housing projects. MEASUREMENTS An anonymous questionnaire cont...

This bulletin is based on research conducted by Dr Shane Murray, Prof Nigel Bertram, Ms Lee-Anne Khor, Ms Deborah Rowe, Mr Byron Meyer and Ms Catherine Murphy at the AHURI Research Centre— Monash University, Prof Peter Newton and Dr Stephen Glackin at the AHURI Research Centre— Swinburne University of Technology, Mr Tom Alves at Office of Victorian Government Architect, and Mr Rob McGauran at M...

Service quality is a major issue because is the result of a judgmental value that involves both the expectations as well as the perceptions of the customers. Despite its tremendous growth in Portugal, little is known about service quality neither in rural areas nor how it is perceived in the Terra Quente Transmontana. This article has two main purposes. Firstly, to compare the service provided ...

The paper studies the impact of the portfolio constraint imposed by the consumption demand for housing (the “housing constraint”) on the household’s optimal holdings of financial assets. Since the ratio of housing to net worth declines as the household accumulates wealth, the housing constraint induces a life-cycle pattern in the portfolio shares of stocks and bonds. For reasonable degrees of r...

Affordable housing is of much importance for Chinese subsidized housing. However, the implementation of the affordable housing policy is facing several problems. One crucial problem is that the current policy cannot effectively identify high-income applicants who are not qualified to apply for affordable housing. Based on the theory of incentive mechanism design, this paper reveals that the cur...