Housing wealth regimes
Nora Waitkus investigates the drivers of housing inequality across 35 countries, a critical issue intricately tied to the growing problem of wealth inequality.
Housing wealth regimes
05 Mar 2025, 13:00 – 14:00
While previous research has highlighted housing equity as a significant contributor to national wealth disparities, the underlying drivers of housing inequality across countries remain insufficiently explored.
To address this gap, Nora explores insights from comparative housing and social stratification research, examining how various population groups contribute to disparities in housing wealth. Using harmonised data from the Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS) and the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) spanning 1995 to 2022, the analysis looks at wealth, housing assets, and debt through a socio-demographic lens.
The findings shed new light on how housing wealth regimes vary across national contexts and reveal their pivotal role in shaping broader patterns of wealth inequality.
This event will be particularly useful for researchers, policymakers, academics and students.
Related links
- QSS and CLS seminar series
- Quantitative Social Science
- Centre for Longitudinal Studies
- Social Research Institute
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Ben Henderson via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).
Nora Waitkus
Sociologist and Chair of Comparative Social Stratification
Heidelberg University, Max-Weber Institute of Sociology
She is interested in socio-economic stratification in contemporary capitalist societies. Her research focuses on exploring and explaining cross-national variation and the institutional drivers of wealth inequality and concentration.
Her work further deals with class, housing, elites, public opinion, and wealth accumulation using survey experiments and longitudinal analysis.
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