Home-Leaving and its Structural Determinants in Western and Eastern Europe: An Exploratory Study

Abstract

This paper focuses on the occurrence of home-leaving and its key structural determinants across the enlarged EU. By building on the literature for Western Europe and by cluster analysis of the data for 24 member states, it seeks to explore different constellations of structural factors, manifested in the grouping of similar countries, and possibly resulting in diverse, regionally specific incidences of home-leaving by youths under 35 years of age. The exploratory analysis noted three clusters of countries: the north-western, characterised by the earliest homeleaving and best opportunity structures for independent housing; the south-western cluster, marked by the latest leaving of the parental home and only somewhat less favourable opportunities, but highest family support; the north-eastern cluster, characterised by late, yet not extremely late, homeleaving, combined with outstandingly unfavourable opportunities and strikingly low family support. These differences, partly confirmed as statistically significant, are further discussed and related to welfare regime typologies and their usefulness.

Parental co-residence, shared living and emerging adulthood in Europe: semi-dependent housing across welfare regime and housing system contexts

“…The result is the delay of all major transition markers to adulthood, such as completion of schooling or home-leaving, and difficulties in job-entry further complicated by protected labour markets (Baranowska & Gebel, 2010;Breen, 2005;Gangl et al, 2003). The EU-SILC analysis (Table 1) revealed the highest levels of semi-dependent housing among young adults with especially high coresidence rates reflecting the strongly engrained reliance on the family for assistance (see Mandic, 2008). Although it would be anticipated that the continued interconnection of homeleaving with family formation and strong expectation of homeownership (Buchmann & Kriesi, 2011) would result in the lowest levels of non-family shared households, this is not clearly reflected in the data.…”

“…The tertiary education system based on vocational training provides easier access to labour markets, although strong protection of senior workers partly dampens this for young entrants (Buchmann & Kriesi, 2011). In terms of housing, institutional support and cultural norms foster earlier home-leaving and therefore lower rates of co-residence among young adults (Mandic, 2008). Traditionally, public housing allowed for more independent living, although recent residualization of this sector (Christophers, 2013), means that access has decreased for younger generations.…”

Considering, planning, and realizing migration in early adulthood. The influence of life-course events and perceived opportunities on leaving the city in Germany

“…As Mulder and Clark (2000) have shown for the United States, parental income particularly enhances the likelihood that young adults leave home to live without a partner at a long distance from their parents. Furthermore, there is evidence that unfavorable opportunities for leaving home are often compensated by family support (Mandic 2008). The migration of friends and relatives also has a positive effect on realizing a move.…”

La transición residencial de la juventud europea y el Estado de bienestar: un estudio comparado desde las políticas de vivienda y empleo

“…A pesar de que numerosos autores han destacado la creciente desestructuración e individualización de los procesos de emancipación juvenil (Evans y Furlong, 1997;Walter, 2006;Mandic, 2008), existen diferencias significativas entre países y regiones en las tasas de emancipación de las personas jóvenes que simplemente responden a factores estructurales de índole económico, social, cultural y político-institucional. Con el propósito de encontrar las razones de dichas diferencias, buena parte de la investigación comparada de corte estructuralista ha estudiado los patrones de emancipación europeos desde aspectos tan diversos como el modelo de formación de hogares (Iacovou, 2002;Berthaud y Iacovou, 2004), el mercado laboral y el sistema educativo (Breen y Buchman, 2002;Feijten y Mulder, 2005), el sistema de vivienda 2 (Mandic, 2008; En este contexto, el objetivo del presente artículo es analizar, desde un planteamiento estructuralista, en qué medida las políticas de vivienda y empleo, y el modelo de Estado de bienestar en el cual se enmarcan pueden llegar a explicar las diferencias en las tasas de emancipación residencial juvenil de los países europeos.…”

“…Con el propósito de encontrar las razones de dichas diferencias, buena parte de la investigación comparada de corte estructuralista ha estudiado los patrones de emancipación europeos desde aspectos tan diversos como el modelo de formación de hogares (Iacovou, 2002;Berthaud y Iacovou, 2004), el mercado laboral y el sistema educativo (Breen y Buchman, 2002;Feijten y Mulder, 2005), el sistema de vivienda 2 (Mandic, 2008; En este contexto, el objetivo del presente artículo es analizar, desde un planteamiento estructuralista, en qué medida las políticas de vivienda y empleo, y el modelo de Estado de bienestar en el cual se enmarcan pueden llegar a explicar las diferencias en las tasas de emancipación residencial juvenil de los países europeos.…”