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The Impact on Residential Choice of the Family Home Exemption in Resource-Tested Transfer Programs

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  • John Piggott

    () (ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales)

  • Renuka Sane

    () (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research)

Abstract

Many countries have policies offering transfers or other entitlements, subject to a resources test. In most cases, these exempt the family home. While the impacts of means-tested programs on saving and labor supply have been extensively studied, exempting the owner-occupier home has escaped analytic attention. We assess the exemption of the owner-occupied home from the Australian age-pension on residential mobility and housing trade-downs. Results suggest that this provision discourages trade-down behaviour.

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Paper provided by ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales in its series Working Papers with number 201112.

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Length: 9 pages
Date of creation: Feb 2011
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Handle: RePEc:asb:wpaper:201112

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Keywords: Elderly mobility; housing; residential transition; means-testing;

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