Demography and housing demand-what can we learn from residential construction data?

Journal of Population Economics

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 521-539

  Lindh, Thomas ^a   Malmberg, Bo ^a,b  

^a Institute for Futures Studies   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Age distribution; Housing demand; Residential construction

Indexed keywords

EID: 43749122109     PISSN: 09331433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00148-006-0064-0     Document Type: Article

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