Ethnic discrimination in the Italian rental housing market

Journal of Housing Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-14

  Baldini, Massimo ^a   Federici, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Field experiment; Immigration; Rental housing market

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953046315     PISSN: 10511377     EISSN: 10960791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhe.2011.02.003     Document Type: Article

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