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Home bitter home? Gender, living arrangements, and the exclusion from homeownership among older Europeans

open access: yesGenus, 2016
Homeownership is the most important asset among the elderly in Europe, but very little is known about gender and living arrangement differences in this domain.
Daniele Vignoli   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Legacy effects of redlining on the distribution of greenspaces in US cities

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and the Environment, EarlyView.
We investigated how a discriminatory housing policy—redlining—has shaped the spatial patterns and configurations of greenspaces throughout 177 cities in the contiguous US. Housing segregation has been a long‐term development practice that has sequestered communities of color to areas with elevated environmental and public health risks.
Travis Gallo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of homeownership in Malaysia [PDF]

open access: yes
The housing industry is crucial to the sustainable development in Malaysia. The efficiency and effectiveness of the housing delivery system requires housing provision for all.
Tan, Teck Hong
core   +2 more sources

Null Effects of the State Pension Age on Mortality in the Netherlands

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increasing the state pension (SP) age in the Netherlands from 65 years in 2012 to 67 in 2024 has been shown to cause individuals to work longer. This study addresses a concern regarding possible adverse health effects of an increased SP‐age, for example, because individuals trade health investments for working time. We empirically investigated
Adriaan Kalwij, Arie Kapteyn
wiley   +1 more source

The Power of Homeownership: The case for Iowa Heartland Habitat for Humanity

open access: yesJournal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs
This research examines the impact of financially assisted homeownership for Iowa Heartland Habitat for Humanity home recipients as measured in life satisfaction.
Esha Jayswal   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Housing Quantum and Innovative Building Systems in South Africa – the Affordability Perspective for 2020

open access: yesCritical Housing Analysis, 2022
The adoption of innovative building technologies (IBTs) and social welfare policies in South Africa has facilitated an increase in decent homeownership among low-income groups, thus improving their quality of life. However, due to the escalating
Emmanuel Kabundu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Asymmetric Long‐Run Effects of Monetary Policy on Generational Inequality

open access: yesInternational Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the asymmetric long‐run effects of reversing contractionary monetary policy to expansionary policy on generational inequality in the UK using non‐linear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL). The results show that there exists a long‐term relationship between monetary policy and income, consumption, and wealth ...
Aminat A. Raheem
wiley   +1 more source

Does homeownership impair employment? Evidence from migrant data in transitional China

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications
China now has a higher rate of homeownership than most country counterparts in the world. How might have China’s high homeownership rate affected the employment outcome and efficiency of labor markets? In this study, ‌we challenge the theoretical premise
Guangjie Ning   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Housing Privatization in Transition Countries: Institutional Features and Outcomes

open access: yesReview of Economic Perspectives, 2020
We provide an overview of housing privatization policies and outcomes in transition economies. Our primary aim is to collect and systematize key information concerning the institutional features of housing privatization in individual countries: we ...
Broulíková Hana M., Montag Josef
doaj   +1 more source

Family life transitions, residential relocations, and housing in the life course: Current research and opportunities for future work: Introduction to the Special Collection on "Separation, Divorce, and Residential Mobility in a Comparative Perspective"

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2020
Background: This article provides an introduction to the Special Collection on "Separation, Divorce, and Residential Mobility in a Comparative Perspective." The Special Collection consists of six European case studies: Belgium, Finland, France, Italy ...
Julia Mikolai   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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