Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/71590 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IFS Working Papers No. 04/09
Publisher: 
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
Abstract: 
This paper analyses the relationship between female labour market participation and mortgage commitments in life-cycle set up. In particular it examines whether a mortgage qualification constraint has any effect on female labour market participation. This is done by conditioning on the mortgage decision in a labour market participation equation for married women. Endogeneity of the mortgage variable is tested using house price data. Panel data from the British Household Panel Study is used in order to control for unobserved heterogeneity in participation.
Subjects: 
Mortgages
labour market participation
women
JEL: 
J40
D91
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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