City skew and homeowner subsidy removal

Arbeitspapier

Many countries subsidize homeownership, and Germany is no exception. However, for an interlude of 12 years Germany also paused its subsidy. Over these twelve years most of the country's 100 largest cities saw their central city population expand. We explore subsidy removal's role in center revival. We assemble a large data set of population strata for a fine partition of city rings. Then we exploit the design of the subsidy (which benefited more affordable places more, and also which never benefited the young) to identify its effects on urban spatial structure. We will find that homeowner subsidy removal has strongly driven the skew of the distribution of commuting distance up. In doing so subsidy removal has also, so we will suggest, contributed to strong recent growth in both, urban rent and female labor force participation.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: BGPE Discussion Paper ; No. 195

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity ; Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior ; Regional Government Analysis: Land Use and Other Regulations
• Thema: Commuting Distribution ; Skewness ; Homeownership Subsidy ; Reurbanization

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Daminger, Alexander ; Dascher, Kristof
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
• (wo): Erlangen und Nürnberg
• (wann): 2020

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/237986
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ