Partnership patterns and homeownership: a cross-country comparison of Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom

Thomas, Michael J.; Mulder, Clara H.

doi:10.1080/02673037.2016.1164832

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“…Additionally, social renting may be a viable option for those who do not have the means to buy a property or pay market rental price and for those who become single parents following separation. Previous research has shown that divorced and separated individuals are less likely to enter homeownership than those who are married or cohabiting (Feijten and van Ham 2010;Lersch and Vidal 2014;Thomas and Mulder 2016). However, there is less evidence on the risk of moving to rental dwellings.…”

Section: Previous Research and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 84%

Short- and long-term effects of divorce and separation on housing tenure in England and Wales

Mikolai

Kulu

2017

Population Studies

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This paper investigates the effects of marital and non-marital separation on individuals' housing tenure in England and Wales. We apply competing risks event history models to data from the British Household Panel Survey and the UK Household Longitudinal Study to analyse the risk of a residential move to different tenure types, for single, married, cohabiting, and separated men and women. Separated individuals are more likely to move and experience a tenure change than those who are single or in a relationship. Among separated people, private renting is the most common outcome of a move; however, women are also likely to move to social renting, whereas men tend to move to homeownership. This pattern persists when we account for time since separation and order of move, indicating a potential longterm effect of separation on housing tenure. This long-term effect is especially pertinent to separated women who cannot afford homeownership.

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Section: Previous Research and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 84%

Short- and long-term effects of divorce and separation on housing tenure in England and Wales

Mikolai

Kulu

2017

Population Studies

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“…Many people leave owner occupation immediately after divorce or separation, while some (especially women) do so only later, when they face difficulties of coping with housing costs or find that they do not manage to raise the capital necessary to buy their ex-partner's share in the house. Divorce strongly enhances the exit out of home ownership, and it also reduces the likelihood of home ownership in later life (Feijten 2005;Dewilde 2009;Feijten and van Ham 2010;Dewilde and Stier 2014;Thomas and Mulder 2016).…”

Section: Housing Transitions and Family Dynamicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Housing consequences of divorce and separation in a 'super home ownership' regime: The case of Hungary

Murinkó¹

2019

DemRes

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BACKGROUND Partnership dissolution is a major reason for residential mobility and migration for former partners. Moving is more resource-intensive in a 'super home ownership' housing regime like Hungary and may increase the vulnerability of people with low socioeconomic status. This analysis is the first attempt to study the interrelationship between partnership transitions and housing dynamics in a Central and Eastern European country. OBJECTIVE We analyse how people adjust their housing situation and place of residence to their changing family circumstances after partnership dissolution in Hungary. METHODS We study change in partnership status and housing between 2008 and 2012 using the Hungarian Generations and Gender Survey (n = 5,408) with descriptive analysis and logistic regression models. The role of cohabitation and marriage, coresidence with parents, housing tenure, and socioeconomic status receives special attention. RESULTS Former couples move more often after divorce than separation from cohabitation, but divorcees who lived with their parents before union dissolution tend to stay. For men, returning to the parental household is a common solution. Both high and low socioeconomic status may increase the probability of moving after separation or divorce. CONCLUSIONS Home ownership is a motivating factor for moving after divorce in Hungary. Parental household provides an important 'safety net' and in some cases a long-term solution for couples in an inflexible housing market where the system of public housing is missing and private rental is expensive. http://www.demographic-research.org CONTRIBUTION We emphasise the importance of differentiating between the dissolution of marriages and cohabitations and considering coresidence with parents both as the origin and destination of moves.

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“…one measure of family wealth and hence inheritance, and the association of home-ownership with bullying still remains. People who have been bullied in childhood are less likely to be in relationships as adults (Takizawa et al, 2014), and partnership status is strongly associated with home-ownership (Thomas and Mulder, 2016). However, once again, the negative association between homeownership and being bullied remains even when controlling for partnership status age 33.…”

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Long term economic impact associated with childhood bullying victimisation

Brimblecombe

Evans‐Lacko

Knapp

et al. 2018

Social Science & Medicine

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Being bullied is associated with mental health problems in childhood, with increasing evidence of persisting negative impacts, and increased mental health service use, into adulthood. There are also impacts of bullying victimisation on employment, income and being in poverty, but little is known about the long-term economic impacts. We therefore aimed to estimate the most important economic consequences at age 50 of being bullied in childhood: to our knowledge this is the first study that does so. Using 1958 British birth cohort data collected in 1965, 1969, 1991, 2003 and 2008 (study samples size 7323-9242), we find substantial and durable individual and societal economic impacts four decades after the childhood bullying occurred. Both men and women who were bullied in childhood were less likely to be in employment and had accumulated less wealth in the form of home-ownership or savings than participants who were not bullied. Individual earnings from paid employment were lower for women who were bullied in childhood. Frequent bullying in childhood was also associated with higher societal employment-related costs for men and higher health service costs for women. Our findings underline the importance of preventing bullying in childhood and, as the consequences are so long-lasting and pervasive, supporting people still experiencing the negative consequences in the decades that follow.

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Partnership patterns and homeownership: a cross-country comparison of Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom

Cited by 36 publications

References 53 publications

Short- and long-term effects of divorce and separation on housing tenure in England and Wales

Short- and long-term effects of divorce and separation on housing tenure in England and Wales

Housing consequences of divorce and separation in a 'super home ownership' regime: The case of Hungary

Long term economic impact associated with childhood bullying victimisation

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