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Housing Tenure (housing + tenure)
Selected AbstractsThe Impacts of Remittances, Residency Status and Financial Attachment on Housing Tenure for Mexican-Heritage Americans: Inferences from a New SurveyREAL ESTATE ECONOMICS, Issue 4 2007Donald Bradley Immigration has and will continue to alter the composition of housing demand in the United Sates. In this article, we analyze results from a new survey of Mexican-heritage households to draw some inferences about tenure choice within that group. Some measures of attachment to the United States,residency status and the amount of money sent to relatives and friends in Mexico,suggest that, among Mexican immigrants, permanence is a key determinant of homeownership in the United States. More specifically, being a citizen increased the probability of ownership, whereas being undocumented reduces the probability. Surprisingly, after controlling for residency status, length of tenure in the United States does not predict tenure status, except that those who refused to report length of tenure were more likely to have higher tenure status. Those who sent remittances home to Mexico were less likely to become homeowners. [source] Housing Tenure, Job Mobility and Unemployment in the UK,THE ECONOMIC JOURNAL, Issue 527 2008Harminder Battu This article examines the effects of housing tenure on individuals' job and unemployment durations in the UK. We examine job to job transitions and transitions from unemployment. We take account of whether or not the arrival of a job was synonymous with a non-local residential move, tenure endogeneity and unobserved heterogeneity. We find that home-ownership is a constraint for the employed and public renting is more of a constraint for the unemployed. Employed home-owners have a lower transition into employment with a distant move and unemployed public renters have a lower probability of gaining employment in more distant labour markets. [source] Factors associated with continued smoking during pregnancy: analysis of socio-demographic, pregnancy and smoking-related factorsDRUG AND ALCOHOL REVIEW, Issue 1 2002G. PENN Abstract This study investigated the characteristics associated with smoking during pregnancy. A total of 7836 pregnant women were surveyed between 1992 and 1999 in England. Of these 27% were smoking during pregnancy. Pregnant women were more likely to smoke if they were less educated, living in rented accommodation, in unskilled manual or unemployed groups, and single or had a partner who smokes. Analysed by logistic regression, whether or not a pregnant women has a partner and, if so, his smoking status, was by far the biggest predictor of the pregnant woman's current smoking status. Thus, compared with women with partners who never smoke, the odds ratio (OR) of smoking during pregnancy for women with a partner who smokes was 2.3 (1.9,2.7) while those with no partner had an OR of 4.8 (3.8,6.0). For women exposed to passive smoke at home or at work the OR was 2.5 (2.1,3.0). Housing tenure was the most important socio-demographic predictor. Thus pregnant women living in rented council housing were nearly twice as likely (OR 1.93;1.63,2.29) as those buying their own home to be current smokers. The number of women who continued to smoke during pregnancy increased 10-fold from the least to the most deprived group. These findings highlight the importance of tobacco control strategies that address pregnant women's life circumstances and broader inequalities as well as those that focus on individual smoking behaviour. [source] Holistic trajectories: a study of combined employment, housing and family careers by using multiple-sequence analysisJOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY: SERIES A (STATISTICS IN SOCIETY), Issue 1 2007Gary Pollock Summary., Social science applications of sequence analysis have thus far involved the development of a typology on the basis of an analysis of one or two variables which have had a relatively low number of different states. There is a yet unexplored potential for sequence analysis to be applied to a greater number of variables and thereby a much larger state space. The development of a typology of employment experiences, for example, without reference to data on changes in housing, marital and family status is arguably inadequate. The paper demonstrates the use of sequence analysis in the examination of multivariable combinations of status as they change over time and shows that this method can provide insights that are difficult to achieve through other analytic methods. The data that are examined here provide support to intuitive understandings of clusters of common experiences which are both life course specific and related to socio-economic factors. Housing tenure is found to be of key importance in understanding the holistic trajectories that are examined. This suggests that life course trajectories are sharply differentiated by experience of social housing. [source] The effect of socioeconomic factors on voter turnout in Finland: A register-based study of 2.9 million votersEUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL RESEARCH, Issue 5 2005PEKKA MARTIKAINEN The analyses are based on individual-level register data from electoral wards from the parliamentary elections of 1999 linked to population registration data on personal characteristics covering the whole 25 to 69 year-old Finnish electorate. The results show that income and housing tenure are more important determinants of turnout among older voters than among younger voters, whereas education has a dominant role in determining young people's turnout. Moreover, class has maintained its discriminatory power in determining turnout in all age groups even though working-class under-representation in participation can be partly attributable to previously obtained educational attainment. Furthermore, the lower turnout of younger voters remains unexplained even if socioeconomic factors are held constant. Lower turnout among lower social classes and among the young will affect the legitimacy of the prevalent model of party democracy. [source] Rates and social patterning of household smoking and breastfeeding in contrasting European settingsCHILD: CARE, HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT, Issue 5 2005G. Papadimitriou Abstract Objective To compare rates and social patterning of household smoking and breastfeeding in families with newborn infants in birth cohorts in Coventry, UK and Veria, North Greece. Methods Infants born in 1996 in Coventry, 1999 in Veria were recruited into birth cohort studies using similar methodologies. In Coventry recruitment was by family health visitor at the primary visit; in Veria, hospital-based paediatricians enrolled infants at the neonatal examination. Data were collected at the initial contact on household smoking, type of feeding, and household socio-demographic characteristics. Rates of initial breastfeeding and household smoking with 95% confidence intervals were estimated and breastfeeding and household smoking regressed on parental education and housing tenure in logistic regression models. Results Data were available on 2612 Coventry infants and 773 Veria infants. Rates of household smoking and breastfeeding were higher in Veria compared to Coventry. In Coventry, living in rented accommodation and lower maternal and paternal education were associated with household smoking and bottle feeding. Logistic regression models fitted on initiation of breastfeeding failed to show social patterning in Veria but more educated mothers showed a longer duration of breastfeeding. Only low paternal education was associated with household smoking after adjustment for maternal education and housing tenure. Conclusions Smoking and breastfeeding are more prevalent among households with young infants in Veria compared with Coventry. The social patterning of health-related behaviours noted in Coventry is less marked in Veria. The relevance of these findings for public health interventions in the contrasting settings is discussed. [source] | |||||||||||||