The Impact of Immigrant Status on Home Ownership in Australia |
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| Authors: | Jamie Chua Paul W Miller |
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| Institution: | Jamie Chua, student, and Paul W. Miller, professor, Business School, the University of Western Australia. We are grateful to three anonymous referees for helpful comments, the Australian Research Council for financial assistance, and to Derby Voon for research assistance. |
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| Abstract: | This paper examines the impact of immigrant status on home ownership in Australia. It shows that the rate of home ownership for most groups of immigrants is comparable to that of the Australian born. As expected, recently arrived immigrants have relatively low probabilities of owning their own home. These results hold for both analyses pooled across movers and non‐movers, and for analyses restricted to those, both immigrants and the native born, who moved residence in the previous five years. A decomposition of the estimated coefficients of the model of tenure choice is developed. This is shown to enhance understanding of variations in rates of home ownership across birthplace groups. |
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