Housing tenure, job mobility and unemployment in the UK

Economic Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 527, 2008, Pages 311-328

  Battu, Harminder ^a   Ma, Ada ^a   Phimister, Euan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; HOUSING MARKET; LABOR MARKET; RENT SEEKING; TENURE SYSTEM; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 39649100615     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02122.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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