Residential mobility and local labor markets.

Summary The right to housing is an essential value of our society. Its purpose is to help the most disadvantaged people to benefit from a home offering a minimum of comfort. Economic policies have been put in place to implement this right, such as low-income housing and subsidized loans to encourage access to property. This thesis aims to contribute to the evaluation of their effectiveness. It first determines to what extent economic policies have influenced the housing choices of disadvantaged households in order to guarantee them decent living conditions. It then examines the macroeconomic consequences of such policies. Indeed, the public rental sector and homeownership are sources of residential inertia and may therefore limit the ability of migration to address local labor market imbalances. In particular, the lack of worker mobility contributes to local wage disparities, which are discussed in more detail.