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Housing and inequality: The case of Luxembourg and its cross-border workers

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  • Guillaume Claveres
  • Thomas Y. Mathä
  • Giuseppe Pulina
  • Jan Stráský
  • Nicolas Woloszko
  • Michael Ziegelmeyer

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The rate of homeownership is close to the OECD average in Luxembourg. However, strong house price increases, mainly driven by population growth and limited housing supply, led to a deterioration in affordability of housing, in particular for the young and added to the wealth gap between homeowners and renters.

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  • Guillaume Claveres & Thomas Y. Mathä & Giuseppe Pulina & Jan Stráský & Nicolas Woloszko & Michael Ziegelmeyer, 2020. "Housing and inequality: The case of Luxembourg and its cross-border workers," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 1608, OECD Publishing.
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    DOI: 10.1787/666babc1-en
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    Keywords

    cross-border workers; homeownership; household survey; inequality; Luxembourg; wealth distribution;
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    JEL classification:

    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • R21 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Housing Demand
    • R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
    • R31 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location - - - Housing Supply and Markets

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