John Doling
Biographic Data
| ID | 376498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Doling |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Doling |
| SIGNATURE | DOLING J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 344 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The Home as Workplace: A Challenge for Housing Research
The aim of this paper is to examine the increasing use of the home as a workplace and establish its significance for housing studies. Firstly, the article sketches its historical growth founded in technological and business model changes. Using cross-country datasets, it identifies variations across the EU in the scale and characteristics of home working, which by 2015 was the practice for about 1 in 6 EU workers, a ratio that has been greatly bo…
The end of mass homeownership? Changes in labour markets and housing tenure opportunities across Europe
With continued economic growth and expanding mortgage markets, until recently the pattern across advanced economies was of growing homeownership sectors. The Great Financial Crisis (GFC) has however, undercut this growth resulting in the contraction of homeownership access in many countries and the revival of private renting. This paper argues that these tenure changes are not solely a consequence of the GFC, and therefore, reversible once long-t…
Housing East Asia: Socioeconomic and Demographic Challenges
Ageing Matters: European Policy Lessons from the East
The implications of an aging population have long concerned policy makers and non-governmental organizations in the welfare states of Europe; now an aging work force is increasingly a matter of concern for the developed and fast-developing nations of Asia. Using reviews and case studies to examine the experiences and prospects of population aging i
Home Ownership and Pensions in East Asia: The Case of Malaysia
Testing Home Ownership as the Cornerstone of Welfare: Lessons from East Asia for the West
In recent years, one driver behind the promotion of home ownership in Western countries has been the belief that owner-occupied housing assets provide a means to build up individual welfare security, potentially offsetting pension shortfalls in retirement. In contrast, many developed East Asian societies have both long focussed on advancing ‘asset’ or ‘property-based welfare’ systems as well as experienced the late-1990s Asian Financial Crisis wh…
Meeting the income needs of older people in East Asia: Using housing equity
In the welfare systems of East Asian countries, the income, care and other needs of older people have traditionally been met less by state social protection measures and more by the family, supported by what might be termed the first homeownership strategy: widening access to home ownership as a physical, emotional and financial basis of family wellbeing. Recent political, economic and demographic developments, however, have undermined this model…
Property-based welfare and European homeowners: How would housing perform as a pension
Notwithstanding current market volatility, there has been exceptional expansion in owner-occupied housing sectors and increases in house prices across European countries in recent decades. In the EU, individual wealth held in housing equity, especially among older people, has been considered a substantial reserve that could be tapped into to meet future pension needs as the ageing of the population becomes a greater stress on European welfare sta…
Home ownership and asset-based welfare
In recent decades, the notion of an ‘asset-based’ or ‘property-based’ welfare system has become increasingly central to debates on the restructuring of western welfare states (Groves et al. 2007; Regan and Paxton 2001; Sherraden 2003; Watson 2009). The principle underlying an asset-based approach to welfare is that, rather than relying on state-managed social transfers to counter the risks of poverty, individuals accept greater responsibility for…
Home Ownership and Pensions: Causality and the Really Big Trade‐off
Starting from the now well‐established observation that across economically advanced countries there has been a trade‐off between levels of home ownership and generosity of pensions, this paper explores the direction of causality: does home ownership effect pensions, or do pensions effect home ownership? It argues that critical to the relationship is not tenure itself but rather the potential to invest and thereby smooth consumption across the li…
Housing Opportunities and Welfare Provision: Testing Causality
J. Allen, J. Barlow, J. Leal, T. Maloutas and L. Padovanni Housing and Welfare in Southern Europe. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004
Repayment risk and European home owners: The interplay of housing markets, labour markets, financial markets and social security systems
Across Europe mass home ownership has been based on financial arrangements that have provided individual buyers with loans that can be repaid over long periods of time. These arrangements vary in their detail, and their integrity is subject to the risk of default. This paper focuses on the probability of households in different European countries experiencing repayment difficulties, and seeks to identify some of the macro factors that lead to thi…
Home ownership and early retirement: European experience in the 1990s
Housing Studies and the Structure-Agency Dualism
Housing Studies and the Structure-Agency Dualism
Housing, Home Ownership and Social Change in Hong Kong, James Lee
De-commodification and Welfare: Evaluating Housing Systems
This article adopts an operational definition of de-commodification that emphasises its significance for the welfare of individuals. It explores what the definition indicates about different forms of home ownership and renting found in industrialised countries. The evaluations are brought together to derive quantitative estimates of the degree of de-commodification found in the housing systems of Britain, Sweden and Germany. Deriving the degrees …
Housing Policies and the Little Tigers: How Do They Compare with Other Industrialised Countries
This paper locates the housing policies of the little tiger countries-Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan-in the policy regimes approach found in the literature dealing with other industrialised countries. It begins by establishing three regime types-liberal, communist and corporatist-describing different balances of market and state in the development, construction and consumption phases of housing provision. Building on a discussion of…
United we stand, divided we fall
Responding to Poverty: The Politics of Cash and Care. By Saul Becker. London, 1997. Pp.223. £12.99 pb. Equal Opportunities and Social Policy. By Barbara Bagilhole. Longman, 1997. Pp.221. £14.99. Policies for a Just Society. By David Donnison. Macmillan, 1998. pp.218. £40.00 hb; £12.50 pb. Partnership against Poverty and Exclusion? By Mike Geddes. The Policy Press, 1997. Pp.136. £12.95 pb. Youth, the ‘Underclass’ and Social Exclusion. By Robert Ma…
The New Homeownership: The Impact of Labour Market Developments on Attitudes toward Owning Your Own Home
During the postwar period as a whole homeownership in Britain has been generally considered to be a desirable form of tenure. For many observers the present, since 1989, downturn in the market-characterised by high levels of arrears, stagnant or falling prices, negative equity, and so on-is a temporary blip from which sooner or later the enthusiasm for owning will recover. In the first part of this paper we analyse the British Social Attitudes Su…
Housing Neighbourhoods and Urban Regeneration
It is widely suggested that recent policies for physically and economically restructuring the cores of cities have often not brought benefits to the residents of low-income urban neighbourhoods. This issue is examined using two case-studies—the cities of Birmingham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. It is argued that, because of housing market segmentation and the dominance of social renting in deprived neighbourhoods around the urban core, regeneration po…
Policy Review Section
In this issue of the Policy Review Section, Harvey Armstrong of the Management School, Lancaster University, examines the issue of subsidiarity in relation to the application of European Community Regional Policy in Britain. In the second Article John Doling of the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Birmingham reviews the development of British housing policy in the past decade. In the third Article Hoe Lim of the Faculty …
Money advice: Issues for local authorities (or don't just throw money advice at the problem)
1992). Money advice: Issues for local authorities (or don't just throw money advice at the problem) Local Government Studies: Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 249-259
The Changing Face of Home Ownership: Building Societies and Household Investment Strategies
In the 1980s home ownership in Britain expanded rapidly under the impact of central government policy. From some perspectives this expansion has meant the unproblematic achievement of a variety of objectives. But the nature and significance of home ownership, and the objectives which it can fulfil, are no longer what they were in 1980, and the actors in the market no longer face the same market conditions. This is particularly so at the onset of …
Home ownership and asset-based welfare
In recent decades, the notion of an ‘asset-based’ or ‘property-based’ welfare system has become increasingly central to debates on the restructuring of western welfare states (Groves et al. 2007; Regan and Paxton 2001; Sherraden 2003; Watson 2009). The principle underlying an asset-based approach to welfare is that, rather than relying on state-managed social transfers to counter the risks of poverty, individuals accept greater responsibility for…
The end of mass homeownership? Changes in labour markets and housing tenure opportunities across Europe
With continued economic growth and expanding mortgage markets, until recently the pattern across advanced economies was of growing homeownership sectors. The Great Financial Crisis (GFC) has however, undercut this growth resulting in the contraction of homeownership access in many countries and the revival of private renting. This paper argues that these tenure changes are not solely a consequence of the GFC, and therefore, reversible once long-t…
Housing Policies and the Little Tigers: How Do They Compare with Other Industrialised Countries
This paper locates the housing policies of the little tiger countries-Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan-in the policy regimes approach found in the literature dealing with other industrialised countries. It begins by establishing three regime types-liberal, communist and corporatist-describing different balances of market and state in the development, construction and consumption phases of housing provision. Building on a discussion of…
Property-based welfare and European homeowners: How would housing perform as a pension
Notwithstanding current market volatility, there has been exceptional expansion in owner-occupied housing sectors and increases in house prices across European countries in recent decades. In the EU, individual wealth held in housing equity, especially among older people, has been considered a substantial reserve that could be tapped into to meet future pension needs as the ageing of the population becomes a greater stress on European welfare sta…
The Family Life Cycle and Housing Choice
Testing Home Ownership as the Cornerstone of Welfare: Lessons from East Asia for the West
In recent years, one driver behind the promotion of home ownership in Western countries has been the belief that owner-occupied housing assets provide a means to build up individual welfare security, potentially offsetting pension shortfalls in retirement. In contrast, many developed East Asian societies have both long focussed on advancing ‘asset’ or ‘property-based welfare’ systems as well as experienced the late-1990s Asian Financial Crisis wh…
Home Ownership and Pensions: Causality and the Really Big Trade‐off
Starting from the now well‐established observation that across economically advanced countries there has been a trade‐off between levels of home ownership and generosity of pensions, this paper explores the direction of causality: does home ownership effect pensions, or do pensions effect home ownership? It argues that critical to the relationship is not tenure itself but rather the potential to invest and thereby smooth consumption across the li…
The Home as Workplace: A Challenge for Housing Research
The aim of this paper is to examine the increasing use of the home as a workplace and establish its significance for housing studies. Firstly, the article sketches its historical growth founded in technological and business model changes. Using cross-country datasets, it identifies variations across the EU in the scale and characteristics of home working, which by 2015 was the practice for about 1 in 6 EU workers, a ratio that has been greatly bo…
De-commodification and Welfare: Evaluating Housing Systems
This article adopts an operational definition of de-commodification that emphasises its significance for the welfare of individuals. It explores what the definition indicates about different forms of home ownership and renting found in industrialised countries. The evaluations are brought together to derive quantitative estimates of the degree of de-commodification found in the housing systems of Britain, Sweden and Germany. Deriving the degrees …
The impact of unemployment on home ownership
Much of housing policy in Britain and much of the theoretical literature is based on assumptions that home ownership, per se, provides certain distinctive and advantageous characteristics such as independence, security and wealth. This paper provides some empirical evidence as a corrective to these assumptions. It does so by locating their basis not inside but outside the tenure: in particular in the position of individual home owners in the labo…
Home ownership and early retirement: European experience in the 1990s
Housing Neighbourhoods and Urban Regeneration
It is widely suggested that recent policies for physically and economically restructuring the cores of cities have often not brought benefits to the residents of low-income urban neighbourhoods. This issue is examined using two case-studies—the cities of Birmingham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. It is argued that, because of housing market segmentation and the dominance of social renting in deprived neighbourhoods around the urban core, regeneration po…
The Changing Face of Home Ownership: Building Societies and Household Investment Strategies
In the 1980s home ownership in Britain expanded rapidly under the impact of central government policy. From some perspectives this expansion has meant the unproblematic achievement of a variety of objectives. But the nature and significance of home ownership, and the objectives which it can fulfil, are no longer what they were in 1980, and the actors in the market no longer face the same market conditions. This is particularly so at the onset of …
Meeting the income needs of older people in East Asia: Using housing equity
In the welfare systems of East Asian countries, the income, care and other needs of older people have traditionally been met less by state social protection measures and more by the family, supported by what might be termed the first homeownership strategy: widening access to home ownership as a physical, emotional and financial basis of family wellbeing. Recent political, economic and demographic developments, however, have undermined this model…
Housing Opportunities and Welfare Provision: Testing Causality
The New Homeownership: The Impact of Labour Market Developments on Attitudes toward Owning Your Own Home
During the postwar period as a whole homeownership in Britain has been generally considered to be a desirable form of tenure. For many observers the present, since 1989, downturn in the market-characterised by high levels of arrears, stagnant or falling prices, negative equity, and so on-is a temporary blip from which sooner or later the enthusiasm for owning will recover. In the first part of this paper we analyse the British Social Attitudes Su…
The demand for new recreational facilities: A coventry case study
Doling J. and Gibson J. G. (1979) The demand for new recreational facilities: a Coventry case study, Reg Studies 13, 181–190. A model for estimating the number of visits to new recreational facilities is developed based on the proposition that there exists a separate market demand curve for each type of recreation. Movement down this demand curve, which signifies an increase in the level of generated visits from any zone, occurs with increases in…
A Two-stage Model of Tenure Choice in the Housing Market
In this country, housing and the housing market have long been issues of primary importance to politicians, planners and the general public. The strong emo-tions engendered by government house building targets, public housing policies, slums and the recent mercuric rise in house prices are all evidence of their importance. Moreover at each crisis in housing, each new development in public intervention, in-tuitive theories of cause and effect are …
Repayment risk and European home owners: The interplay of housing markets, labour markets, financial markets and social security systems
Across Europe mass home ownership has been based on financial arrangements that have provided individual buyers with loans that can be repaid over long periods of time. These arrangements vary in their detail, and their integrity is subject to the risk of default. This paper focuses on the probability of households in different European countries experiencing repayment difficulties, and seeks to identify some of the macro factors that lead to thi…
Mortgage Default: Why Finland is Not like Britain
Mortgage default and possession as a result of unemployment has been a feature of Britain and some other Western industrialized countries in the 1980s. This has prompted comments, based on abstract models of the processes involved, about the limits of owner-occupation in the context of the restructuring of labour markets. In this paper it is demonstrated that this is not a universal limitation. Finland which has the prerequisites in terms of high…
Financial restructuring and housing markets in Finland
In Western, industrialised countries, houses are typically expensive in relation to average incomes so that their production and exchange are facilitated by extensive systems of finance as well as being a major source of profit for the suppliers of finance. Also typically, national financial systems have been, and continue to be, subject to fundamental changes. These can be expected to lead to a changed relationship between housing and financial …
Policy Review Section
In this issue of the Policy Review Section, Harvey Armstrong of the Management School, Lancaster University, examines the issue of subsidiarity in relation to the application of European Community Regional Policy in Britain. In the second Article John Doling of the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Birmingham reviews the development of British housing policy in the past decade. In the third Article Hoe Lim of the Faculty …
Housing Studies and the Structure-Agency Dualism
Housing Finance in Finland
Building Societies and Local Lending Behaviour
This paper considers the determinants of variation in individual building society lending behaviour. A level of conformity in lending behaviour is identified, which it is argued results from a number of constraints that arise from the environment in which lending decisions are made. It is further argued, however, that considerable variation in lending behaviour is also apparent and is made possible by the practice of charging interest rates which…
A Two-stage Model of Tenure Choice in the Housing Market
In this country, housing and the housing market have long been issues of primary importance to politicians, planners and the general public. The strong emo-tions engendered by government house building targets, public housing policies, slums and the recent mercuric rise in house prices are all evidence of their importance. Moreover at each crisis in housing, each new development in public intervention, in-tuitive theories of cause and effect are …
The Family Life Cycle and Housing Choice
The Use of Content Analysis in Identifying the Determinants of House Prices
A comment on the measurement of spatial opportunity
(1979). A comment on the measurement of spatial opportunity. Regional Studies: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 245-246
The demand for new recreational facilities: A coventry case study
Doling J. and Gibson J. G. (1979) The demand for new recreational facilities: a Coventry case study, Reg Studies 13, 181–190. A model for estimating the number of visits to new recreational facilities is developed based on the proposition that there exists a separate market demand curve for each type of recreation. Movement down this demand curve, which signifies an increase in the level of generated visits from any zone, occurs with increases in…
Housing
Building Societies and Local Lending Behaviour
This paper considers the determinants of variation in individual building society lending behaviour. A level of conformity in lending behaviour is identified, which it is argued results from a number of constraints that arise from the environment in which lending decisions are made. It is further argued, however, that considerable variation in lending behaviour is also apparent and is made possible by the practice of charging interest rates which…
Ethnic minorities and the protection of the Rent Acts
The impact of unemployment on home ownership
Much of housing policy in Britain and much of the theoretical literature is based on assumptions that home ownership, per se, provides certain distinctive and advantageous characteristics such as independence, security and wealth. This paper provides some empirical evidence as a corrective to these assumptions. It does so by locating their basis not inside but outside the tenure: in particular in the position of individual home owners in the labo…
Conflicts in organizational objectives: The management of local authorities’ mortgage arrears
Efficiency and local authority rent arrears
1987). Efficiency and local authority rent arrears. Local Government Studies: Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 17-22
Book notes
Public Sector Pay ‐ Review of 1986: Prospects for 1987, Peat Marwick McLintock, Public Finance Foundation, IDS Public Sector Unit, March 1987, pp.80, £25.00. Effective Assignment Skills and Strategies, A. Rushton and R. Ram, HMSO, 1987, pp.94, £5.80. Local Government in the Soviet Union: Problems of Implementation and Control, Cameron Ross, Croom Helm, 1987, pp.x+287, £29.95. Monitoring the Cost of Local Housing Management, A Report by Building U…
Financial restructuring and housing markets in Finland
In Western, industrialised countries, houses are typically expensive in relation to average incomes so that their production and exchange are facilitated by extensive systems of finance as well as being a major source of profit for the suppliers of finance. Also typically, national financial systems have been, and continue to be, subject to fundamental changes. These can be expected to lead to a changed relationship between housing and financial …
Housing Finance in Finland
Mortgage Default: Why Finland is Not like Britain
Mortgage default and possession as a result of unemployment has been a feature of Britain and some other Western industrialized countries in the 1980s. This has prompted comments, based on abstract models of the processes involved, about the limits of owner-occupation in the context of the restructuring of labour markets. In this paper it is demonstrated that this is not a universal limitation. Finland which has the prerequisites in terms of high…
The Changing Face of Home Ownership: Building Societies and Household Investment Strategies
In the 1980s home ownership in Britain expanded rapidly under the impact of central government policy. From some perspectives this expansion has meant the unproblematic achievement of a variety of objectives. But the nature and significance of home ownership, and the objectives which it can fulfil, are no longer what they were in 1980, and the actors in the market no longer face the same market conditions. This is particularly so at the onset of …
Money advice: Issues for local authorities (or don't just throw money advice at the problem)
1992). Money advice: Issues for local authorities (or don't just throw money advice at the problem) Local Government Studies: Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 249-259
Policy Review Section
In this issue of the Policy Review Section, Harvey Armstrong of the Management School, Lancaster University, examines the issue of subsidiarity in relation to the application of European Community Regional Policy in Britain. In the second Article John Doling of the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Birmingham reviews the development of British housing policy in the past decade. In the third Article Hoe Lim of the Faculty …
Housing Neighbourhoods and Urban Regeneration
It is widely suggested that recent policies for physically and economically restructuring the cores of cities have often not brought benefits to the residents of low-income urban neighbourhoods. This issue is examined using two case-studies—the cities of Birmingham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. It is argued that, because of housing market segmentation and the dominance of social renting in deprived neighbourhoods around the urban core, regeneration po…
The New Homeownership: The Impact of Labour Market Developments on Attitudes toward Owning Your Own Home
During the postwar period as a whole homeownership in Britain has been generally considered to be a desirable form of tenure. For many observers the present, since 1989, downturn in the market-characterised by high levels of arrears, stagnant or falling prices, negative equity, and so on-is a temporary blip from which sooner or later the enthusiasm for owning will recover. In the first part of this paper we analyse the British Social Attitudes Su…
United we stand, divided we fall
Responding to Poverty: The Politics of Cash and Care. By Saul Becker. London, 1997. Pp.223. £12.99 pb. Equal Opportunities and Social Policy. By Barbara Bagilhole. Longman, 1997. Pp.221. £14.99. Policies for a Just Society. By David Donnison. Macmillan, 1998. pp.218. £40.00 hb; £12.50 pb. Partnership against Poverty and Exclusion? By Mike Geddes. The Policy Press, 1997. Pp.136. £12.95 pb. Youth, the ‘Underclass’ and Social Exclusion. By Robert Ma…
De-commodification and Welfare: Evaluating Housing Systems
This article adopts an operational definition of de-commodification that emphasises its significance for the welfare of individuals. It explores what the definition indicates about different forms of home ownership and renting found in industrialised countries. The evaluations are brought together to derive quantitative estimates of the degree of de-commodification found in the housing systems of Britain, Sweden and Germany. Deriving the degrees …
Housing Policies and the Little Tigers: How Do They Compare with Other Industrialised Countries
This paper locates the housing policies of the little tiger countries-Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan-in the policy regimes approach found in the literature dealing with other industrialised countries. It begins by establishing three regime types-liberal, communist and corporatist-describing different balances of market and state in the development, construction and consumption phases of housing provision. Building on a discussion of…
Housing, Home Ownership and Social Change in Hong Kong, James Lee
Housing Studies and the Structure-Agency Dualism
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