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Do Foreigners Pay Higher Rents for the Same Quality of Housing in Geneva and Zurich?

Baranzini, Andrea
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Schaerer, Caroline
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Ramirez, José V.
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2008
Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics

The Geneva and Zurich housing markets are characterised by high proportions of foreigners and a large share of rental housing. This provides ideal conditions for testing whether foreigners pay more for the same quality of housing than Swiss households and whether flats in neighbourhoods with higher proportions of foreigners rent at a discount. Hedonic price equations using a rich dataset on dwellings and their occupants yield evidence of such discrimination and prejudice. They also suggest more complex relationships between tenant nationality, housing and neighbourhood quality, and rents.

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research article
DOI
10.1007/BF03399272
Author(s)
Baranzini, Andrea
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Schaerer, Caroline
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Ramirez, José V.
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Thalmann, Philippe  
Date Issued

2008

Published in
Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics
Volume

144

Issue

4

Start page

703

End page

730

Subjects

housing market

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rental market

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hedonic model

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discrimination

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prejudice

URL

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http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ses:arsjes:2008-iv-8
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January 13, 2009
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