TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Baert, Stijn
AU  - Heylen, Freddy
AU  - Isebaert, Daan
        TI  - Does Homeownership Lead to Longer Unemployment Spells? The Role of Mortgage Payments
        PY  - 2013/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7774
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7774
        AB  - This paper examines the impact of housing tenure choice on unemployment duration in Belgium using EU-SILC micro data. We contribute to the literature in distinguishing homeowners with mortgage payments and outright homeowners. We simultaneously estimate unemployment duration by a mixed proportional hazard model, and the probability of being an outright homeowner, a homeowner with mortgage payments or a tenant by a mixed multinomial logit model. To be able to correctly identify the causal influence of different types of housing tenure on unemployment duration, we use instrumental variables. Our results show that homeowners with a mortgage exit unemployment first. Outright owners stay unemployed the longest. Tenants take an intermediate position. Moreover, our results reveal the different share of mortgage holders within the group of homeowners as a possible explanation for the discrepancy between former contributions to this literature.
        KW  - housing tenure
KW  - duration analysis
KW  - unemployment
        ER  -