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Absentee landlord is an economic term for a person who owns and rents out a profit -earning property , but does not live within the property's local economic region.1This is a common corporate practice. Absentee Landlords were a highly significant issue in the History of Ireland . In the 1640s , English forces under Oliver Cromwell invaded Ireland . Seized land was given to English nobles and soldiers, who rented it out to Irishmen while themselves remaining residents of England. Over the centuries, resentment grew as not only were the absentee landlords Protestant (while most tenants were Catholic ), but their existence meant that the wealth of the land was always exported. In the years following the Irish Potato Famine , the land issue with the Irish Land League 's Land War becoming a most significant issue in Ireland. The land issue was one of the historic factors which resulted in Ireland's troubled history until this day.2Critics of this practice argue that absentee landlords drain local wealth, particularly that of rural areas and the Third World .3
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Absentee landlord is an economic term for a person who owns and rents out a profit -earning property , but does not live within the property's local economic region. This practice is problematic for that region because absentee landlords drain local wealth into their home country, particularly that of rural areas and the Third World .The term "absentee ownership" was popularized by Thorstein Veblen's book of the same name, Absentee ownership .When used in a local context, the term refers to a landlord of a house or other real estate , who leases the property to tenants , but fails to ensure that proper maintenance is done on it.This in turn leads to what may appear to be abandoned buildings , causing significantly-lowered property values and urban blight .Tax policy seems, overall, to favor absentee ownership.However, some jurisdictions seek to extract money from absentee owners by taxing land.Absentee ownership has sometimes put the absentee owners at risk of loss.Research suggests that net of other factors, foreign ownership has a negligible impact on the environmental performance of chemical plants.Research also indicates that in Mongolia, there is little indication that high rates of absentee ownership have detrimental ecological or social effects.The American Version of Industrial Policy , vol.N Rajagopalan (2003), Governance through ownership: Centuries of practice, decades of research , The Academy of Management Don Grant, Andrew W.
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Absentee landlord is an economic term for a person who owns and rents out a profit -earning property , but does not live within the property's local economic region. The term "absentee ownership" was popularised by economist Thorstein Veblen 's book of the same name, Absentee ownership . When used in a local context, the term refers to a landlord of a house or other real estate , who leases the property to tenants , but fails to ensure that proper maintenance is done on it. This in turn leads to what may appear to be abandoned buildings , causing significantly-lowered property values and urban blight . Tax policy seems, overall, to favour absentee ownership. However, some jurisdictions seek to extract money from absentee owners by taxing land. Absentee ownership has sometimes put the absentee owners at risk of loss. Research suggests that net of other factors, foreign ownership has a negligible impact on the environmental performance of chemical plants. Research also indicates that in Mongolia, there is little indication that high rates of absentee ownership have detrimental ecological or social effects. The American Version of Industrial Policy , vol.
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In economics , an absentee landlord is a person who owns and rents out a profit -earning property , but does not live within the property's local economic region. The term "absentee ownership" was popularised by economist Thorstein Veblen 's 1923 book of the same name, Absentee Ownership .When used in a local context, the term refers to a landlord of a house or other real estate , who leases the property to tenants , but fails to ensure that proper maintenance is done on it, or does only the minimum required by law (the term slumlord is also used to describe such a person). This, in turn, leads to what may appear to be abandoned buildings , causing significantly lowered property values and urban blight . Tax policy seems, overall, to favour absentee ownership. However, some jurisdictions seek to extract money from absentee owners by taxing land. Absentee ownership has sometimes put the absentee owners at risk of loss.
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Person who rents a property, but does not live in the property's local economic region In economics , an absentee landlord is a person who owns and rents out a profit -earning property , but does not live within the property's local economic region. The term "absentee ownership" was popularised by economist Thorstein Veblen 's 1923 book of the same name, Absentee Ownership . Overall, tax policy seems to favour absentee ownership. However, some jurisdictions seek to extract money from absentee owners by taxing land. Absentee ownership has sometimes put the absentee owners at risk of loss.
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Person who rents a property, but does not live in the property's local economic region In economics , an absentee landlord is a person who owns and rents out a profit -earning property , but does not live within the property's local economic region. The term "absentee ownership" was popularised by economist Thorstein Veblen 's 1923 book of the same name, Absentee Ownership . Overall, tax policy seems to favour absentee ownership. However, some jurisdictions seek to extract money from absentee owners by taxing land. Absentee ownership has sometimes put the absentee owners at risk of loss.
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economic term for a person who owns and rents out a profit -earning property
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person who owns and rents out a profit -earning property
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In Ireland before 19031,872 characters
On Prince Edward Island before 18672,435 characters
In Palestine before 19483,218 characters
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