Mortgage Default: Why Finland is Not like Britain

J Doling
Additional contact information
J Doling: Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Birmingham, PO Box 363, Birmingham B15 2TT

Environment and Planning A, 1990, vol. 22, issue 3, 321-331

Abstract: Mortgage default and possession as a result of unemployment has been a feature of Britain and some other Western industrialized countries in the 1980s. This has prompted comments, based on abstract models of the processes involved, about the limits of owner-occupation in the context of the restructuring of labour markets. In this paper it is demonstrated that this is not a universal limitation. Finland which has the prerequisites in terms of high rates of owner-occupation and unemployment does not also have high rates of default. A housing provision framework is used to show that the structural position of the Finnish owner-occupier is consistent with this outcome.

Date: 1990
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/a220321 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:envira:v:22:y:1990:i:3:p:321-331

DOI: 10.1068/a220321

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Environment and Planning A
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().