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Refugee Immigration and the Housing Market
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- Andersson, Henrik (författare)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutet för bostads- och urbanforskning (IBF)
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- Dahlberg, Matz (författare)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutet för bostads- och urbanforskning (IBF)
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- Engelska.
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https://urn.kb.se/re...
Abstract
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Stäng
- In this paper we examine the short-run housing market effects of refugee immigration to Sweden. Given that Sweden is a major refugee receiving country, it constitutes an interesting and important case to study. To deal with the endogeneity resulting from the refugees' location choices, we use an econometric specification that includes neighborhood fixed effects and an instrumental variable that is based on a historical settlement pattern mainly determined by a refugee placement policy. We find that refugee immigration to small neighborhoods has no average effect on changes in housing prices in that neighborhood. We find a positive effect on increased housing supply, measured as the number of objects on sale. The zero effect of immigration on housing prices stands in contrast to the negative results found in earlier studies. We hypothesize that the reason is due to different preferences for homogeneity in Sweden, and/or to institutional features in the Swedish rental sector.
Ämnesord
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Nationalekonomi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Economics (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Immigration
- Refugees
- Housing market
- Housing prices
Publikations- och innehållstyp
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