Transition to Homeownership Among Immigrant Groups and Natives in West Germany, 1984–2008

Davidov, Eldad; Weick, Stefan

doi:10.1080/15562948.2011.616807

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“…Age may be particularly relevant in countries like Germany with more regulated or restrictive lending practices where people have to muster more savings to put down larger deposits (Blaauboer, 2010). In some contexts, greater difficulties and possibly discrimination in access to mortgage finance may explain why ethnic minorities and migrants frequently have lower rates of homeownership than the native majority (Davidov & Weick, 2011).…”

Section: Family Dynamics and Life Course Careersmentioning

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Family formation, parental background and young adults’ first entry into homeownership in Britain and Germany

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Although previous research shows that family dynamics and parental socioeconomic status influence the timing of young adults' first entry into homeownership, much less is known about how the role of family factors may vary across countries with different housing systems. In this article, we use panel survey data from Britain and Germany to compare how family life course careers and parental socioeconomic background influence young adults' initial entry into homeownership in these two divergent national contexts. The results show that in Britain, first-time homeownership transitions are tightly synchronized with partnership formation. By contrast, in Germany first moves into homeownership typically occur later around or after the arrival of children. Parental owner-occupation accelerates entry into homeownership in both contexts, while the effects of other parental characteristics are relatively muted. Furthermore, the results highlight how individual socioeconomic factors are critical determinants of entering owner-occupation. This is particularly true in Britain where there is a strong socioeconomic gradient in first-time homeownership transitions.

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Section: Family Dynamics and Life Course Careersmentioning

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Family formation, parental background and young adults’ first entry into homeownership in Britain and Germany

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“…Søholt 2007;Søholt and Astrup 2009), in the homeownership sector there can be discriminatory practices among banks or institutions providing capital for the purchase of housing if ethnic minorities are seen as less solvent customers (e.g. Davidov and Weick 2011). Therefore, immigrants may face stricter credit constraints than natives, decreasing the homeownership rate especially among lower-income immigrants.…”

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“…Existing research has mostly found that differences in the general socio-demographic determinants of homeownership are insufficient explanations for the gaps (Krivo 1995;Haan 2007;Kim and Boyd 2009;Bråmå and Andersson 2010;Painter and Yu 2010;Sinning 2010;Davidov and Weick 2011;Zorlu et al 2014;Kauppinen and Vilkama forthcoming). This suggests that the effects of these determinants differ between natives and immigrants.…”

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Determinants of immigrants’ entry to homeownership in three nordic capital city regions

Kauppinen

Andersen

Hedman

2015

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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The extent of homeownership among immigrants may be seen as an indicator of integration and as a determinant of ethnic residential segregation. Studies have shown differences in the determinants of homeownership between immigrants and natives, indicating that variation in homeownership is not only a function of differences in economic resources. These studies have largely focused on Anglo‐American contexts, using mostly cross‐sectional data. We apply survival analysis methods to analyse the determinants of entry to homeownership in the capital regions of three Nordic countries – Denmark, Finland and Sweden – utilizing longitudinal individual‐level register‐based datasets. We find that differences in entry to homeownership between natives and different immigrant groups cannot be explained by differences in socio‐economic background factors. We also find differences in the effects of these factors. Effects of income are generally weaker among non‐Western immigrants and immigrants are less responsive to changes in household composition. The share of non‐Western immigrants in the neighbourhood is only weakly related to entry to homeownership, while immigrants and natives living in public rental housing tend to be slightly less inclined to move to homeownership. Weaker income effects among immigrants, weak effects of ethnic segregation and the importance of the public rental sector differentiate our results from earlier findings. Weaker income effects may indicate that uncertainty about the future also affects middle‐income immigrants. Differences between the three contexts in housing markets and policies do not seem to matter much, although the results indicate that difficult access to the private rental sector may push immigrants to homeownership.

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“…Although the SOEP is not specifically designed to study integration, it includes a sufficient number of respondents with an immigration background and useful indicators related to the topic. Several studies have utilized data provided by the SOEP to study integration of immigrants in Germany (Davidov and Weick, 2011;Diehl and Blohm, 2008;Hochman, 2011;Reinecke, Schmidt and Weick, 2005). 7 This paper focuses on first generation immigrants identified by their self-reported country of birth.…”

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“…Their arrival can be divided into six waves (Münz and Ulrich, 1997 from East Germany and the former communist bloc, arriving in Germany during the late 1980s and the early 1990s (Münz and Ulrich, 2003). 4 While the legal status of immigrants in the united Germany was revised and regulated by the end of the 1990s, their integration remains a central issue, both on the political and public agenda as well as in the social sciences (Davidov and Weick, 2011;Luther, 2013;Raijman, Semyonov and Schmidt, 2003;Schlüter, Schmidt and Wagner, 2008). In recent years, the topic has regained dominance in both the public and academic spheres, as it became clear that inequality between native Germans and immigrants of the first generation persists into the second immigrant generation (Biedinger, Becker and Rohling, 2008;Constant and Massey, 2005;Diehl and Koenig, 2009;Kalter and Granato, 2001;Kristen and Dollmann, 2010).…”

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Relations between Second-Language Proficiency and National Identification: The Case of Immigrants in Germany

Hochman

Davidov

2014

European Sociological Review

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This paper discusses and empirically tests the relations between language proficiency and national identification with Germany among first generation immigrants in Germany. It presents three theoretical arguments: (1) language proficiency positively affects national identification; and contrastingly (2) national identification positively influences language proficiency; and (3) there is a reciprocal relationship between both constructs. To test these potentially contradictory claims empirically, we utilize data on first generation immigrants in Germany measured in four waves (1997, 1999, 2001 and 2003) from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study. Language proficiency is operationalized with the variable proficiency in German language. Hypotheses are tested using autoregressive cross-lagged structural equation models. Findings demonstrate an effect of language proficiency on national identification among immigrants in Germany. However, data provide no support for an effect in the other direction.

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Transition to Homeownership Among Immigrant Groups and Natives in West Germany, 1984–2008

Cited by 18 publications

References 45 publications

Family formation, parental background and young adults’ first entry into homeownership in Britain and Germany

Family formation, parental background and young adults’ first entry into homeownership in Britain and Germany

Determinants of immigrants’ entry to homeownership in three nordic capital city regions

Relations between Second-Language Proficiency and National Identification: The Case of Immigrants in Germany

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