TY - CHAP
T1 - Housing and labour markets
AU - Flatau, P.
PY - 2012/12/1
Y1 - 2012/12/1
N2 - Housing interacts with the labour market in a number of different ways. For example, housing tenure influences regional mobility, which in turn affects the efficiency of the labour market, while housing subsidies can influence work incentives. Homeowners and public housing tenants are less mobile between regions than private renters are. On the other hand, homeowners stay longer in their jobs and are more successful, for a variety of reasons, in gaining employment in their local area. The value of a rental subsidy together with eligibility criteria can reduce the work incentives of those entitled to housing assistance, though the evidence supporting this contention is weak. Neighbourhoods may also affect labour market outcomes: Those living in very low-income low-employment neighbourhoods have access to fewer educational, health, and community resources and may be stigmatised when applying for jobs. © 2012
AB - Housing interacts with the labour market in a number of different ways. For example, housing tenure influences regional mobility, which in turn affects the efficiency of the labour market, while housing subsidies can influence work incentives. Homeowners and public housing tenants are less mobile between regions than private renters are. On the other hand, homeowners stay longer in their jobs and are more successful, for a variety of reasons, in gaining employment in their local area. The value of a rental subsidy together with eligibility criteria can reduce the work incentives of those entitled to housing assistance, though the evidence supporting this contention is weak. Neighbourhoods may also affect labour market outcomes: Those living in very low-income low-employment neighbourhoods have access to fewer educational, health, and community resources and may be stigmatised when applying for jobs. © 2012
KW - Housing assistance
KW - Housing tenure
KW - Labour supply
KW - Marginal effective tax rates
KW - Neighbourhood effects
KW - Oswald hypothesis
KW - Residential mobility
KW - Spatial mismatch hypothesis
KW - Unemployment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84884452990&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/B978-0-08-047163-1.00225-3
DO - 10.1016/B978-0-08-047163-1.00225-3
M3 - Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
AN - SCOPUS:84884452990
SN - 9780080471716
SP - 273
EP - 280
BT - International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home
PB - Elsevier
ER -
