"The really big trade-off" between home ownership and welfare: Castles' evaluation of the 1980 thesis, and a reformulation 25 years on

Housing, Theory and Society

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 59-75

  Kemeny, Jim ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Elderly; Home ownership; Housing and health; Integrated rental markets; Pensions; Sweden; Welfare

Indexed keywords

HOMEOWNERSHIP; HOUSING MARKET; WELFARE PROVISION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; WORLD;

EID: 21044448221     PISSN: 14036096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14036090510032727     Document Type: Review

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