Home ownership and early retirement: European experience in the 1990s

Journal of Housing and the Built Environment

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 289-308

  Doling, John ^a   Horsewood, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Home ownership; Labour force participation; Pensions; Social security

Indexed keywords

HOMEOWNERSHIP; LABOR MARKET; LABOR PARTICIPATION; RETIREMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 0346669893     PISSN: 15664910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JOHO.0000005755.62225.54     Document Type: Article

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