Do high levels of home-ownership create unemployment? Introducing the missing link between housing tenure and unemployment

Borg, Ida; Brandén, Maria

doi:10.1080/02673037.2017.1358808

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“…The role of employment possibilities in more sparsely populated regions should not be understated. Borg and Brandén (2018) found that regions with high home-ownership (accompanied by small rental sectors) in the sparsely populated areas tend to have small labour markets where firms and workers are poorly matched. Another explanation raised by Magnusson and Turner (2008) is the role of politics, where liberal-and conservative-run municipalities tend to use public housing companies more as social housing companies.…”

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Universalism lost? The magnitude and spatial pattern of residualisation in the public housing sector in Sweden 1993–2012

Borg

2018

J Hous and the Built Environ

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An important feature of the Swedish housing system is universalism, meaning that housing provision should encompass broad income groups and thus not only be directed towards poor households. Considering the recent decades of marketization and liberalisation of the Swedish housing system, concerns have been raised whether universalism remains as a key feature of the Swedish housing system. The aim of this paper is to improve our understanding of processes of residualisation in Sweden. This is a process whereby the public housing sector is becoming dominated by low income households. To describe, analyse and understand processes of residualisation in Sweden and across regions, I use a novel Index of Residualisation and longitudinal register data covering the period 1993-2012. The results indicate that the rental sector as a whole is undergoing a process of residualisation, but that there are clear variations in the magnitude of residualisation across regions. The process of residualisation is most pronounced in sparsely populated regions. The relative size of the public rental sector is a key factor to consider in order to understand the diverging trends. Regions with smaller rental sectors are associated with higher levels of residualisation, indicating that public housing may have the function of social housing in these regions.

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Universalism lost? The magnitude and spatial pattern of residualisation in the public housing sector in Sweden 1993–2012

Borg

2018

J Hous and the Built Environ

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“…To exemplify a small sample of these constructions, we could take Massey (1992) and Somerville (1997), who frame home as the product of social and political symbol, whilst Hunt (1989) and Eslen-Ziya et al (2021) explore the dimensions of home which are shaped through construction and practice of gendered roles. Within sociology, home can equally be framed in terms of its more restrictive and obstructive characteristics, with discussions that focus for instance on home ownership as a determining factor in limiting positive labour market outcomes (Borg and Brandén 2018;Green and Hendershott 2001;Sari 2015), or the experiences of those who are homebound (K. J. Moore 2003;Shafir et al 2016).…”

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Home in hardship : Exploring how United Nations professionals negotiate constructions of home in and between hardship settings

Alexander¹

2022

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There is a general recognition within the social sciences that extensive mobility challenges how we perceive the notion of home. With this idea as its starting point, this article explores how situations of hardship impact the ways in which mobile professionals negotiate and construct their homes. The actor-network theory (ANT) has been used as the means to explore the interactions between the people who inform this study and the multidimensional characteristics of the hardship setting. Through individual, open-ended interviews, the research draws upon the experiences of five international civil servants from the United Nations (UN) system of organizations who are assigned to hardship duty stations. Applying ANT to the empirical material drew the attention to the identification of five principal entities (or actors) that come into play in the negotiation of home construction, namely the civil servant, [in]security, mobility, ownership and social relations. The influence of the various nonhuman actors on home construction varied according to the individual and their transnational ties and professional status – those with family nuclei tended to situate their homes in terms of territoriality, whereas for others, factors such as privacy, materiality and social interaction weighed more heavily in the act of creating home.

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“…Hypothesis one: the mobility of renters should be lower in attractive locations compared to less attractive locations Hypothesis one builds on the "stylized fact" that rent control system does not accurately reflect how consumers value location and that most property owners have joined the rent control system (Borg and Brandén, 2018). This implies that rent levels in attractive locations should be low relative to the (unobservable) market rent.…”

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“…It is typically referred to as the "use value system" (bruksvärdessystemet) and is considered strict from an international perspective (Lind, 2003). The fact that most rental dwellings, in private and as well as public housing companies, belong to the use value system (Borg and Brandén, 2018) complicates assessing how rent control affects residential mobility. It is hard or even impossible to estimate effects of the system (e.g.…”

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Area income, construction year and mobility of renters in Sweden: two hypotheses about the impact of rent control

Karpestam

2022

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Purpose This paper aims to test two hypotheses related to the supposedly negative impact of rent control on residential mobility: the mobility of renters is, first, negatively related to how attractive their residential areas are and, second, relatively high for renters living in properties built after 2005. Design/methodology/approach This paper estimates logit and multinomial logit regressions and models household moves. The multinomial logit regressions separate between short- and long-distance moves and between moves to rentals and to owned dwellings. This paper uses the “relative income” of the tenants’ residential areas to proxy area attractiveness. This paper estimates regressions for entire Sweden and the three largest “commuting” regions and municipalities, respectively. Findings The full sample provides support of both hypotheses in all regressions. Hypothesis one gets stronger support for moves to other rentals than moves to owned dwellings but about equally strong support for short- and long-distance moves. Hypothesis one obtains strongest support in Gothenburg municipality while hypothesis two obtains strongest support in the Malmö region. Also, hypothesis two obtains stronger support for short-distance moves than long-distance moves and slightly stronger support for moves to owned dwellings than those to rented dwellings. Research limitations/implications This paper does not estimate “how much” rent control affects mobility, and results cannot be used to design specific rent setting policies. Results may be sensitive to how different types of moves are defined. Practical implications Efforts to reform rent setting policies in Sweden are encouraged. Originality/value To the best of the author’s knowledge, this paper’s two hypotheses are not tested before in Sweden and can be tested without control groups.

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Do high levels of home-ownership create unemployment? Introducing the missing link between housing tenure and unemployment

Cited by 6 publications

References 47 publications

Universalism lost? The magnitude and spatial pattern of residualisation in the public housing sector in Sweden 1993–2012

Universalism lost? The magnitude and spatial pattern of residualisation in the public housing sector in Sweden 1993–2012

Home in hardship : Exploring how United Nations professionals negotiate constructions of home in and between hardship settings

Area income, construction year and mobility of renters in Sweden: two hypotheses about the impact of rent control

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