Homeownership and the Labour Market in Europe

Casper van Ewijk is Deputy Director of CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis. He is also Professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam. Before joining the University of Amsterdam he was Professor of Economics at Tilburg University and Vice-Dean to the Faculty of Economics, University of Amsterdam.Michiel van Leuvensteijn graduated from the VU University Amsterdam in 1991. Before joining CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis in 2000 as Senior Economist, he was affiliated with the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment in the Netherlands. More recently, he has been engaged in research on the nature of competition in EU insurance and banking markets.

• Preface ; Introduction ; THEORY ; 1. Housing, mobility, and unemployment ; MACRO-ECONOMICS AND MICRO-ECONOMICS: EMPIRICS ; 2. The Housing Market and Europe's Unemployment ; 3. Social Renting, Transfer Taxes, and Labour Mobility in Europe ; COUNTRY STUDIES: UNEMPLOYMENT AND HOMEOWNERSHIP ; 4. Homeowners and Unemployment ; 5. The Impact of Homeownership on Unemployment in the Netherlands ; 6. Do Homeowners Stay Unemployed Longer? A French Micro-econometric study ; COUNTRY STUDIES: JOB MOBILITY AND HOMEOWNERSHIP ; 7. The Effect of Homeownership on Labor Mobility in the Netherlands ; 8. Homeownership, Job Duration, and Wages? ; 9. Family Migration and Labour Mobility: A Panel Investigation in the UK ; CONCLUSION ; 10. Homeownership and Labour Market Behaviour: Interpreting the Evidence ; Appendix on Tax Treatment of Housing

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