Migration and inequality in rental housing: Affordability stress in the Chinese cities

Liu, Ran; Li, Tingzhu; Greene, Richard

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2019.102138

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“…Could such a crowding‐out effect be subjected to different city‐scale conditions? Existing literature has studied the impacts of increasing housing price on total factor productivity (Zhou et al, 2020), housing affordability and housing choice (Li et al, 2017; Tao et al, 2015), consumption distribution (Hui, Dong, & Jia, 2018), migration and inequality (Liu, Li, & Greene, 2020), and the business cycle (He et al, 2017; Hu et al, 2019). However, how the increasing housing market can influence innovation capacity needs to be examined.…”

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Housing price, talent movement, and innovation output: Evidence from Chinese cities

Lin

Ren

et al. 2020

Review Development Economics

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How housing costs would influence the job‐housing choice of talent and associated city‐level innovation performance is a question of interest for urban development policies. Recently, considerable attention has been paid to the influence of rising housing prices on the attraction of talent and the associated innovation output in major Chinese cities. In this paper, we use the housing price data of 51 cities from the China Real Estate Index System database and the corresponding macro data of China City Statistical Yearbooks from 2005 to 2014 to analyze this focal research question. The empirical analysis shows that the increase in city housing prices generally correlates positively with city innovation outcome and talent attraction, suggesting no crowding‐out effect on the innovative performance of the city. However, the positive association between housing prices and innovation outcome and talent attraction has started to disappear in first‐tier cities in recent years, suggesting potential crowding‐out effect if the increasing housing prices transform to bubbles. This research thus provides considerable policy implications concerning the impacts of housing prices on talent movement and innovation output.

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Housing price, talent movement, and innovation output: Evidence from Chinese cities

Lin

Ren

et al. 2020

Review Development Economics

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“…Comparative studies examining cities/MSAs and intra-urban patterns are scanty. Same is the case with comprehensive studies explicitly analyzing rent burden determinants through a geographic lens (see Bunting et al, 2004 ; Liu et al, 2020 ). Most reviewed articles have focused on a single aspect/determinant (i.e., race/ethnicity, income inequality, family structure, or health), have lacked geographic focus, and have emphasized rentership only occasionally.…”

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“…As such, the use of different terms for essentially the same phenomenon hinder the advancement of research on rent burden, since the American and the Australian contexts could have beneficially informed each other. Likewise, Liu et al ( 2020 )’s analysis of Chinese rental housing markets and affordability also used the word “stress.” Bunting et al ( 2004 ) examined the geography of rental housing affordability stress across Canadian metropolises. Thus, terminological incompatibility is quite problematic 4 for scholars to discover and expand on each other’s scholarship.…”

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“…Only few nations (i.e., Germany, Switzerland, and to a lesser extent Austria) remain predominantly or almost renter societies (Beer & Wagner, 2012 ; Bourassa et al, 2010 ; Soederberg, 2018 ; Steinführer & Haase, 2009 ). However, declining rentership in some countries have changed during the last decades (Australia, Beer, 1999 ; the UK, Houston & Sissons, 2012 ), especially after the Great Recession, and rental tenure has increased (China, Liu et al, 2020 ; Australia, Liu et al, 2016 ; the U.S., Immergluck, 2018 ; Wachter, 2015 ). Given the mentioned trends in certain locations, research on declining rental affordability and increasing rent burden is especially timely.…”

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Rental tenure and rent burden: progress in interdisciplinary scholarship and pathways for geographical research

Sharma

Samarin

2021

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Rental housing accommodates more than a billion tenants worldwide, and in recent years, rentership has been increasing in some countries. Given reduced access to homeownership in various locations due to several causes, it is critical to focus on rentership which has received relatively less attention compared to homeownership, especially within the geography scholarship. In this review article, we identify four key themes that have naturally emerged from the close examination of recent interdisciplinary literature on rentership and rental affordability. These include: (1) rental housing financialization; (2) the proliferation of single-family rentals resulting from the U.S. foreclosure crisis; (3) the determinants and consequences of rent burden; and (4) the relationship between rent burden and regional economic specialization. We discuss these themes and propose potential opportunities for the geographic analysis of rent burden, its determinants, and their relationships with regional economic specialization. We posit that the four identified themes have been developing in apparent isolation, thus making scholarship less consistent. Moreover, research on rent burden is disjointed in itself, which makes it difficult to establish a unified narrative and interlinked subthemes within the rent burden literature. Nonetheless, we contextualize the four themes in their application to geography and frame our discussion around the central notion of this article—rent burden.

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“…Spatial autocorrelation approaches have also been considered in other assessments, such as the following: personal insolvency (Bishop, 2013), ripple effect on housing values (de la Paz et al, 2017), technical efficiency (Ezcurra, Iraizoz, & Rapun, 2008), transport infrastructures (Gao et al, 2019), economic growth efficiency with low carbon (Ju & Zhang, 2020), pollutant emissions (Li et al, 2018), food inflation (Liontakis & Kremmydas, 2014), eco‐efficiency (Liu et al, 2020), rental housing (Liu et al, 2020), transport efficiency (Ma, Wang, Sun, Liu, & Li, 2018), sulphur dioxide emissions (Nan et al, 2020), fertility rate (Salvati et al, 2020), homicides and personal damages (Santos‐Marquez & Mendez, 2020), interregional migration (Sardadvar & Rocha‐Akis, 2016), diabetes incidence/prevalence (Shrestha et al, 2016), carbon emissions (Su, 2020), educational standards (Tselios, 2008) and energy efficiency (Zhang et al, 2017).…”

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Impact of Covid‐19 on the convergence of GDP per capita in OECD countries

Martinho

2021

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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The main objective of this study is to assess the consequences of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid‐19) on the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD) countries. For this purpose, the developments from the convergence theory for panel data were considered, as well as data from the OECD database for the last quarter of 2017 to the third quarter of 2020. This statistical information was, also, analysed through spatial autocorrelation approaches. The findings obtained show that the pandemic, specifically in the first two quarters of 2020, eliminated the signs of convergence verified from the end of 2017 until the end of 2019 in OECD countries, bringing new challenges for the future. In terms of policy recommendations, it is suggested to design instruments by the European Union and international organizations in order to promote a globally balanced development, preventing consequences beyond the socioeconomic.

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Migration and inequality in rental housing: Affordability stress in the Chinese cities

Cited by 38 publications

References 52 publications

Housing price, talent movement, and innovation output: Evidence from Chinese cities

Housing price, talent movement, and innovation output: Evidence from Chinese cities

Rental tenure and rent burden: progress in interdisciplinary scholarship and pathways for geographical research

Impact of Covid‐19 on the convergence of GDP per capita in OECD countries

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