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Do house prices ride the wave of immigration?

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posted on 2024-06-04, 14:02 authored by MP Larkin, Z Askarov, H Doucouliagos, Chris DubelaarChris Dubelaar, M Klona, Joshua NewtonJoshua Newton, Tom StanleyTom Stanley, Andrea VocinoAndrea Vocino
The sharp rise in international migration is a pressing social and economic issue, as seen in the recent global trend towards nationalism. One major concern is the impact of immigration on housing. We assemble a comprehensive database of 474 estimates of immigration's impact on house prices in 14 destination countries and find that immigration increases house prices, in the aggregate. The effect of immigration is larger at the province (state) level as it is at the city level. However, using data from the World Values Survey, we also show that attitudes to immigrants moderate this effect. In countries less welcoming to immigrants, house price increases are more limited.

History

Journal

Journal of Housing Economics

Volume

46

Article number

ARTN 101630

Pagination

1 - 8

Location

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

ISSN

1051-1377

eISSN

1096-0791

Language

English

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2019, Elsevier

Publisher

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE