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The Social limits to growth : security and insecurity aspects of home ownership /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Horsewood, N. (Nick), Neuteboom, Peter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : IOS Press, ©2006.
Colección:Housing and urban policy studies ; 31.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Security and insecurity aspects of home ownership
  • A cross-country analysis
  • Introduction
  • The importance of home ownership for individuals and society at large
  • Security and insecurity aspects of home ownership
  • Structure of the book
  • Housing and finance markets and the institutional context in Europe
  • Introduction
  • Demography: trends and prospects
  • Labour markets and social security
  • Institutional context
  • Housing markets
  • Finance markets
  • A cross-country comparison
  • Home ownership and economic transition
  • Hungary as a case studyIntroduction
  • Macroeconomic changes and changes in the welfare regimes
  • The tenure structure of the housing stock in Central and Eastern European countries
  • Housing markets in Hungary and other Central and Eastern European countries
  • Conclusion
  • The social dimension of home ownership
  • Who is getting in and who is staying out?
  • Introduction
  • Tenure choice: theoretical background and literature review
  • Tenure choice: an empirical test using Swedish data
  • Home ownership in Europe: who are the owners and what are the economic conditions?Changes in home ownership across Europe
  • Conclusion
  • Home ownership and labour market participation of younger people
  • Introduction
  • The life-cycle consumption hypothesis
  • Tenure choice, equity and employment of younger households in Sweden
  • Younger women, home ownership and labour force participation
  • Conclusions
  • Early retirement and home ownership
  • Introduction
  • Income sources of pensioners and the labour market of older employees in European countries
  • Pension systems in European countriesRetirement decisions
  • Macroeconomic model of early retirement behaviour
  • Microeconomic analysis of early retirement behaviour
  • Conclusion
  • Home ownership, self-employment and investment
  • Introduction
  • Self-employment, investment and capital market failures
  • Self-employment and home ownership
  • Investment and home ownership
  • Conclusion
  • Privatisation of the housing stock in Hungary
  • Introduction
  • Privatisation of the Hungarian housing stock: aims and outcomes
  • Policy and institutional changes
  • Factors affecting home ownershipThe consequences of privatisation
  • Summary and conclusions
  • Insecurity aspects of home ownership
  • Introduction
  • Repayment risk of European home owners: the influence of economic and institutional factors
  • An analysis of households with mortgage arrears
  • Discussion
  • The social limits to growth
  • The security and insecurity aspects of home ownership
  • Introduction
  • Discussion of main findings
  • What are the (social) limits to home ownership?
  • Directions for further research
  • References
  • Contributors