The decline of the immigrant homeownership advantage
Subtitle: life-cycle, declining fortunes and changing housing careers in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, 1981-2001
By: by Michael Haan.
Contributors: Statistics Canada. Analytical Studies Branch.
Series: Research paper series (Statistics Canada.  Analytical Studies Branch); Research paper series / Analytical Studies Branch -- no. 238
Publisher: Statistics Canada
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ottawa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Home ownership -- Canada -- Statistics.; Immigrants -- Canada -- Statistics.; Housing -- Canada -- Statistics.
Genres: Statistics.
Other titles: Life-cycle, declining fortunes and changing housing careers in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, 1981-2001
Description: In the past, working-age immigrant families in Canada's large urban centres had higher homeownership rates than the Canadian-born. Over the past twenty years however, this advantage has reversed, due jointly to a drop in immigrant rates and a rise in the popularity of homeownership among the Canadian-born. This paper assesses the efficacy of standard consumer choice models, which include indicators for age, income, education, family type, plus several immigrant characteristics, to explain these changes.
Notes: Also published in French under title: Diminution de l'avantage des immigrants en matière de propriété.

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Issued by: Business and Labour Market Analysis Division.