Neighborhood Diversity and the Appreciation of Native- and Immigrant-Owned Homes

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Mathias Sinning ()

No 4464, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper examines the effect of neighborhood diversity on the nativity gap in home-value appreciation in Australia. Specifically, immigrant homeowners experienced a 41.7 percent increase in median home values between 2001 and 2006, while the median value of housing owned by the native-born increased by 59.4 percent over the same period. We use a semi-parametric decomposition approach to assess the relative importance of the various determinants of home values in producing this gap. We find that the differential returns to housing wealth are not related to changes in the nature of the houses or the neighborhoods in which immigrants and native-born homeowners live. Rather, the gap stems from the fact that over time there were differential changes across groups in the hedonic prices (i.e., returns) associated with the underlying determinants of home values.

Keywords: decomposition analysis; international migration; home-ownership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 F22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2009-10
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Published - published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2011, 41 (1), 214-226

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