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- Location, Duration, and Employment Accessibility: An Analysis of Immigrant Workers' Commutes in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.
By Cathy Yang Liu
Building on the literature of spatial mismatch hypothesis and immigrants' economic assimilation, this paper tries to depict a dynamic picture of immigrants' employment accessibility in the three metropolitan areas of Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. It records the changing spatial distributions of immigrants' residential locations and employment in these metropolises and their level of mismatch from 1990 to 2000.(More)
Building on the literature of spatial mismatch hypothesis and immigrants' economic assimilation, this paper tries to depict a dynamic picture of immigrants' employment accessibility in the three metropolitan areas of Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. It records the changing spatial distributions of immigrants' residential locations and employment in these metropolises and their level of mismatch from 1990 to 2000.(More)
- The Home Equity Conversion Mortgage: A Study of Attitudes and Awareness
By Stephanie Yates Rauterkus
This study will survey senior homeowners nationwide to assess their level of awareness regarding the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD's) Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program. Additionally, this study will assess this group's attitudes regarding specific program characteristics.(More)
- Housing Tenure Choice of Taiwanese Immigrants: A Different Path to Residential Assimilation
By Zhou Yu
Recent research shows that, after accounting for socioeconomic and demographic differences, Chinese have homeownership rates 20 percentage points higher than U.S.-born, non-Hispanic White households. Chinese who were born in Taiwan may have an even stronger propensity for homeownership than the other Chinese groups (Painter, Yang, and Yu, 2001). This paper extends this research and examines Taiwanese immigrants' high propensity for homeownership.(More)
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