Working Paper

Residential Mobility of the European Elderly

Viola Angelini, Anne Laferrère
CESifo, Munich, 2010

CESifo Working Paper No. 3280

With the ageing of the European population, the housing choices of the elderly will have consequences on the whole housing market. In this paper we use data from the first two waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to analyse the residential mobility decisions of the elderly and the factors influencing them in eleven European countries.

CESifo Category
Public Choice
Public Finance
Keywords: housing, ageing, residential mobility, housing policy
JEL Classification: D100, R210, R280