Mobility, housing and labour markets in times of economic crises

The links between labour markets and housing markets in Melbourne

The links between housing markets and labour markets

Housing Tenure and Labour Mobility: a Comparison across European Countries

This paper studies housing tenure and labour mobility using individual data from the ECHP for five European countries. First, the effect of housing tenure on the unemployed workers’ labour mobility is studied using a discrete unemployment duration model with two alternative exits to employment, depending on whether they are associated with a residential change or not. Ownership is found to affe...

Residential Mobility, Housing Wealth and the Labour Market

UK commentators have noted for some time that the structure of the UK housing market may be detrimental to labour market flexibility. The early 1990s experience of negative housing equity which affected over 20% of home buyers may have “locked” home owners into property, reducing mobility and worsening further the flexibility of the labour market. The present paper uses UK household longitudina...

Job mobility and segmentation in Australian city labour markets