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Does the ethnic gap in homeownership vary by income?
- Source :
- BASE-Bielefeld Academic Search Engine, Housing Studies, 32(1), 95-114. ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2017.
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Abstract
- Lower levels of homeownership among immigrant populations have frequently been related to the particular financial constraints that immigrant households can face. Various problems have been raised with this explanation for the ethnic gap in homeownership rates. This paper responds to these criticisms by sensitizing the financial constraints explanation to the possibility of differential effects of ethnicity depending upon level of income. The hypothesis that the ethnic gap is stronger for lower income groups is tested through logistic analyses of the housing tenure of Turkish and Moroccan immigrants and a comparison group of native citizens in the Netherlands. High-income Turks are revealed to have comparable rates of homeownership to high-income natives, whereas in low-income groups a large ethnic gap exists. The ethnic gap in homeownership among low-income groups could not be explained by other financial constraints (education, couple's earning status, parental resources). Housing preferences and discrimination are possible explanations for this ethnic gap among low-income households.
- Subjects :
- DYNAMICS
Labour economics
WEALTH
EUROPE
Sociology and Political Science
Inequality
Turkish
media_common.quotation_subject
Immigration
0211 other engineering and technologies
Ethnic group
02 engineering and technology
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
HOUSING-MARKET
Housing tenure
0502 economics and business
Economics
SEGREGATION
050207 economics
Lower income
RESIDENTIAL PREFERENCES
media_common
05 social sciences
Ethnic minorities
021107 urban & regional planning
Differential effects
language.human_language
Urban Studies
income
homeownership
DISCRIMINATION
language
INEQUALITIES
Survey data collection
HOME-OWNERSHIP
TRANSITION
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02673037
- Volume :
- 32
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Housing Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4bafdc41488231dc92fbd5169c5ed3a3