Negative equity does not reduce homeowners’ mobility

Sam Schulhofer-Wohl

Quarterly Review, 2012, issue Feb, 17 pages

Abstract: Many researchers, policymakers, and pundits have argued that the housing crisis may harm labor markets because homeowners who owe more than their homes are worth are less likely to move to places that have productive job opportunities. I show that, in the available data, negative equity does not make homeowners less mobile. In fact, homeowners who have negative equity are slightly more likely to move than homeowners who have positive equity. Ferreira, Gyourko, and Tracy?s (2010) contrasting result that negative equity reduces mobility arises because they systematically drop some negative-equity homeowners? moves from the data

Date: 2012
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Working Paper: Negative Equity Does Not Reduce Homeowners' Mobility (2011)
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