Home Ownership and Social Inequality in Comparative PerspectiveKarin Kurz, Hans-Peter Blossfeld Although a strong indicator of social status, home ownership has rarely emerged as a topic in social inequality research. This book compares twelve countries—the United States, Germany, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Israel—to determine the interdependence of social inequality and homeownership attainment over the life course. Examining countries that are similar with respect to socioeconomic development, but different in regard to their housing policies, the authors show that housing policies matter and are largely consistent with a country’s general approach in the provision of welfare. This book presents a valuable contribution to the social stratification literature, which traditionally has neglected the dimension of home ownership. It goes beyond most housing studies by adopting a life-course framework and longitudinal approach. The empirical findings provide evidence that in all countries under study—even those of the social democratic welfare regime type—labor market position matters in one’s chances to become a homeowner. |
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access to home analysis average Banca d'Italia become homeowners birth cohort Blossfeld blue-collar workers buy a home calculations based coefficient cohabiting countries Danmarks Statistik Denmark differences Dummy dwellings economic effect European factors farmers first-time groups Häußermann and Siebel higher home ownership home-ownership rates house prices household head household income housing cooperatives housing costs housing market housing policy housing tenure housing wealth immigrants income quintile increase inheritance interest rates intergenerational transfers Ireland Israel Italy living loans low-income marriage married married couples mortgage interest Mulder Netherlands occupational category owner-occupied parents partner payments Percentage of homeowners population public housing purchase quintile rate of home rent rental sector renters respondents role sample Service-class workers social class social inequality Spain subsidies subsidized owners survey Table tenants tion transition to home trends unskilled variables welfare regimes West Germany white-collar workers working-class younger youngest cohort