Immigrant Homeownership and Immigration Status: Evidence from Spain

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Kusum Mundra ()

No 6676, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Because of the many advantages of homeownership for immigrants and for the communities where immigrants reside, a variety of countries have implemented policies that facilitate immigrant homeownership. Although these policies hinge on immigration status, the link between immigration status and homeownership is yet to be carefully explored. Using a recent survey of immigrants in Spain, we find that permanent residents from the EU15 enjoy the highest homeownership rates, even after accounting for a wide range of individual and family characteristics known to impact housing ownership. Permanent residents from countries outside the EU15, temporary residents and undocumented immigrants are, respectively, 12 percentage-points, 29 percentage-points and 33 percentage-points less likely to own a home than permanent residents from the EU15. Overall, the findings highlight the differences in homeownership by immigrant status, possibly reflecting differences in cultural adaptation and integration across immigrants in host country.

Keywords: immigration status; immigrant homeownership; Spain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J61 R21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2012-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-mig and nep-ure
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Published - published in: Review of International Economics, Special Issue: Migration and Culture, 2013, 21(2), 204-218.

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