Arbeitspapier

Immigrant Homeownership and Immigration Status: Evidence from Spain

Because of the many advantages of homeownership for immigrants and for the communities where immigrants reside, a variety of countries have implemented policies that facilitate immigrant homeownership. Although these policies hinge on immigration status, the link between immigration status and homeownership is yet to be carefully explored. Using a recent survey of immigrants in Spain, we find that permanent residents from the EU15 enjoy the highest homeownership rates, even after accounting for a wide range of individual and family characteristics known to impact housing ownership. Permanent residents from countries outside the EU15, temporary residents and undocumented immigrants are, respectively, 12 percentagepoints, 29 percentage-points and 33 percentagepoints less likely to own a home than permanent residents from the EU15. Overall, the findings highlight the differences in homeownership by immigrant status, possibly reflecting differences in cultural adaptation and integration across immigrants in host country.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: CReAM Discussion Paper Series ; No. 01/13

Classification
Wirtschaft
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Housing Demand
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Subject
Immigrant Homeownership
Immigration Status
Spain

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina
Mundra, Kusum
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London
(where)
London
(when)
2013

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina
  • Mundra, Kusum
  • Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London

Time of origin

  • 2013

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