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European Sociological Review 20:141-159 (2004)
© 2004 Oxford University Press

Labour Market Position, Intergenerational Transfers and Home-ownership

A Longitudinal Analysis for West German Birth Cohorts

Karin Kurz

Karin Kurz, Faculty of Social and Economic Science, Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg, Germany. E-mail: karin.kurz{at}sowi.uni-bamberg.de

This article examines with longitudinal data for three birth cohorts in West Germany how the transition to home-ownership is influenced by occupational class, employment of the spouse, father's class and parental home-ownership. In addition, it tries to understand why working class households had a relatively high home-ownership rate in older birth cohorts. Important results are that skilled manual workers do remarkably better than un- and semi-skilled workers with respect to the likelihood of home-ownership. Living in rural areas and coming from a working class family increases the rate of home-ownership. The latter was particularly true for older birth cohorts. Intergenerational transfers increase the rate of transition for all households, though in particular for low-income households. Furthermore, two earners in a household speed up the transition to home-ownership. It is also shown that parental transfers have become increasingly important for younger birth cohorts, presumably because of a marked deterioration in macro-economic conditions.

Manuscript received: December 1999.


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