TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Ham, Maarten van
AU  - Williamson, Lee
AU  - Feijten, Peteke
AU  - Boyle, Paul
        TI  - Right to Buy… Time to Move? Investigating the Effect of the Right to Buy on Moving Behaviour in the UK
        PY  - 2010/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5115
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5115
        AB  - One of the goals of the Right to Buy (RTB) was to stimulate labour migration by removing the debilitating effect of social housing on geographical mobility. This is the first study to examine rigorously whether the Right to Buy legislation did indeed 'free-up' those in social housing who bought their homes. Using longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and panel regression models we show that the probability of a RTB-owner making a long distance move falls between that of social renters and owner occupiers. However, the difference between RTB-owners and neither homeowners nor social renters is significant. Social renters are significantly less likely to move over long distances than traditional owners. The results also suggest that RTB-owners are less likely than traditional owners to move for job related reasons, but more likely than social renters.
        KW  - longitudinal data
KW  - United Kingdom
KW  - moving reasons
KW  - migration
KW  - residential mobility
KW  - Right to Buy
        ER  -