Three essays on housing: Housing rent and occupational rank in Beijing and Shenyang, China. Rent controls, housing subsidies and privatization: An international perspective. The urban housing reform in China

Chapter I. Housing rent and occupational rank in Bejjing and Shenyang, China. Under the planned economic system in China, the occupational rank of housing renters has a major effect on the household's rent. The government provides differential housing subsidies to different types of renters of state housing, and the higher the rank, the more the subsidy. However, other key factors such as living area, number of rooms in each housing unit, number of floors in the building, floor on which the unit is located and distance from city center influence rent in similar directions to those one would find in a market economy. Data has been collected from Beijing and Shenyang for cadre (white-collar government employee) housing with ranks of housing renters ranging from junior staff to minister or province governor. Multiple regression analysis is used to estimate a model which reveals the influence of housing attributes on urban housing rent, with special attention to the housing subsidies for the various ranks.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Finance

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Gu, Yanxiang

Contributors dc:contributor

• Colwell, Peter F.

• Economics, Finance

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1994 Gu, Yanxiang

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9512379
(UMI)AAI9512379

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/19338