Spatial Impacts, Local Labour Market Characteristics and Housing Prices

The Labour Market Characteristics and Labour Market Impacts of Immigrants in Ireland

The Labour Market Characteristics and Labour Market Impacts of Immigrants in Ireland The purpose of this paper is two-fold. We firstly produce a labour market profile of non-Irish immigrants who arrived in Ireland in the ten years to 2003. We then go on to use the labour market profile in estimating the impact of immigration (non-Irish) on the Irish labour market. Immigrants are shown to be a h...

Park Accessibility Impacts Housing Prices in Seoul

Housing prices are determined by a variety of factors, including the features of the building and the neighborhood environment, and a potential buyer decides to buy a house after reviewing these factors and concluding that it is worth the price. We used Hedonic Price Methods to find the relationship between monetary value of house and access conditions to urban parks. Two meaningful results wer...

Housing affordability and the economy: A review of labour market impacts and policy issues

Housing Tenure and Labor Market Impacts:

We develop two search-theoretic models of the Oswald hypothesis, the idea that homeownership is linked to inferior labor market outcomes, and compare their predictions to three extant theories. The five models have surprisingly different predictions about the labor market at both the aggregate and micro levels. We estimate micro and US state-level regression models of wages and unemployment and...

The Labour Market Impacts of Forced Migration

One of the key consequences of civil conflict is forced migration. The United Nations Population Division (2013) suggests that from the total global stock of 232 million international migrants in 2013, about 16 million (6.8%) were refugees. Just recently, over 2 million Syrians have been displaced since the conflict started in March 2011 (UNHCR, 2013). The magnitude and frequency of forced disp...