Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Homeownership

By Amelie Constant, Rowan Roberts, Klaus F. Zimmermann. Social Science Research Network, 2009

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Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socioeconomic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic identity as a potential influence on the homeowner-ship decision, using a two-dimensional composite index of ethnic identity that incorporates attachments to both origin and host cultures. In the case of Germany, the evidence suggests that immigrants with a stronger commitment to the host country are more likely to achieve homeownership for a given set of socioeconomic and demographic characteristics, regardless of their level of attachment to their home country.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/8470d7f270704deae9293fb85c0333c4ea628e77

Citations in the corpus

• The Impact of Immigration on the Well-Being of Natives (2014, unknown): “, 2009, Constant and Zimmermann, 2011), but also other outcomes such as home ownership (Constant et al., 2011).”