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The Effect of Home-ownership on Labor Mobility in The Netherlands

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Michiel van Leuvensteijn ()
Pierre Koning ()

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In various macro-studies, home-ownership is found to hamper job mobility and to increase unemployment. This paper addresses similar issues, but uses a microeconometric framework where both individual job mobility, as well as the probability of being homeowner are modeled simultaneously. Using a panel of individual labor and housing market histories for the period 1989-1998, we estimate a nonparametric model of both job durations and home-ownership. We do not find homeowners to change less from jobs than tenants. Instead, our results suggest that the housing decision is driven by job commitment, and not the reverse. We do however find homeowners to be less vulnerable for unemployment.

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Paper provided by Utrecht School of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 04-01.

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Date of creation: Jan 2004
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Keywords: Duration Models; Labor Mobility; Housing Market Analysis;

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J6 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies
R2 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - Household Analysis

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  4. Michael Svarer & Michael Rosholm & Jacob Roland Munch, 2003. "Are Home Owners Really more Unemployed?," CAM Working Papers 2003-09, University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. Centre for Applied Microeconometrics. [Downloadable!]
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  5. Ron Smith & Gylfi Zoega, 2004. "Global Shocks and Unemployment Adjustment," DEGIT Conference Papers c009_003, DEGIT, Dynamics, Economic Growth, and International Trade. [Downloadable!]
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  6. Nestor Gandelman, 2008. "Hogares encabezados por mujeres y propiedad de la vivienda en América Latina," RES Working Papers 3253, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department. [Downloadable!]
  7. Florence Goffette-Nagot & Claire Dujardin, 2008. "Does public housing occupancy increase unemployment?," Working Papers 0833, Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique (GATE), Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Université Lyon 2, Ecole Normale Supérieure. [Downloadable!]
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  8. Nestor Gandelman, 2008. "Female-Headed Households and Homeownership in Latin America," RES Working Papers 3252, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department. [Downloadable!]
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