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Residential Mobility of the European Elderly

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  • Viola Angelini
  • Anne Laferrère

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With the ageing of the European population, the housing choices of the large elderly cohorts will have consequences on the whole housing market. This article combines micro data from two waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) with macro data on housing policy to analyse the residential mobility decisions of the elderly in 11 European countries. Residential mobility is low, but we find some evidence that those who move in old age tend to reduce housing consumption and investment by going from owning to renting. This 'downsizing' is positively linked to housing capital gains, while the existence of reverse mortgages in a country reduces it. We also find that mobility to nursing homes and mobility between private homes respond to different incentives and motivations. (JEL codes: D10, R21, R28). Copyright The Author 2011. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com, Oxford University Press.

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Article provided by CESifo in its journal CESifo Economic Studies.

Volume (Year): 58 (2012)
Issue (Month): 3 (September)
Pages: 544-569

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Handle: RePEc:oup:cesifo:v:58:y:2012:i:3:p:544-569

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  1. Elsa Fornero & Maria Cristina Rossi & Maria Cesira Urzì Brancati, 2011. "Explaining why, right or wrong, (Italian) households do not like reverse mortgages," CeRP Working Papers 123, Center for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies, Turin (Italy).

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