Not logged in.
Quick Search - Contribution
Contribution Details
| Type | Working Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | The labor market effects of housing subsidies: evidence from Switzerland |
| Organization Unit | |
| Authors |
|
| Language |
|
| Institution | University of Zurich |
| Series Name | URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series |
| Number | 19 |
| Number of Pages | 52 |
| Date | 2023 |
| Abstract Text | There is an active debate about whether housing assistance policies distort labor market incentives. We investigate the so far neglected interaction between housing subsidy recipients’ residential mobility and their job mobility. The setting for this is a large-scale, object-targeting housing assistance program in Switzerland launched in 1975. The WEG program offered substantial rent subsidies to low-income households for a limited duration. Leveraging variation in the timing of subsidy expiration in an event study, we show that WEG tenants have reduced residential mobility as long as subsidies are paid out but increase mobility once subsidies expire. Recipients’ labor market response to subsidy expiration, however, is limited or even negative. Furthermore, we find that WEG out-movers, on average, experience an improvement in dwelling and neighborhood quality, but there is large variation in outcomes. |
| Official URL | https://www.urpp-equality.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:d8e2f4d0-9fa9-4867-86ee-961abbf4c137/19_MorettiSchmid2022_HousingSubsdies.pdf |
| Related URLs | |
| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:24216 |
| PDF File |
Download from ZORA
|
| Export |
BibTeX
EP3 XML (ZORA)
|
| Keywords | Housing subsidies, residential relocation, neighborhood characteristics, labor market performance, job mobility |