Trends in the Intergenerational Transmission of Social Assistance in the Nordic Countries in the 2000s

Moisio, Pasi; Lorentzen, Thomas; Bäckman, Olof; Angelin, Anna; Salonen, Tapio; Kauppinen, Timo M.

doi:10.1080/14616696.2014.968797

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“…Kauppinen et al () found out that disadvantaged social background was a significant predictor for both short‐ and long‐term spells of social assistance among young adults in Finland. Moreover, previous research has shown signs of intergenerational transmission of social assistance in the Nordic countries (Moisio, Lorentzen, Bäckman, Angelin, Salonen, & Kauppinen, ; Stenberg, ).…”

Section: Life Course and Social Assistance Dynamicsmentioning

confidence: 93%

Social assistance trajectories among young adults in Finland: What are the determinants of welfare dependency?

Ilmakunnas

Moisio

2018

Soc Policy Adm

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Social assistance receipt is typical among young adults, but the long‐term trajectories of social assistance receipt have been less studied. We use Finnish population register data to study the kinds of social assistance trajectories found among young adults. We also analyze how individual and family characteristics are associated with the likelihood of following different social assistance trajectories. Individuals are followed from the age of 19 to 25. According to the results, social assistance receipt is relatively common among young adults but spell duration is usually short. Around 35% receive social assistance at least once between the ages of 19 and 25, and 2.5% receive social assistance each year. Using latent class growth analysis, we estimated six trajectories based on the annual number of social assistance months: (1) no receipt; (2) transitory; (3) slow exit; (4) occasional; (5) increase; and (6) dependency. Almost 4% of young adults follow the “dependency” trajectory. The results from multinomial logistic regression indicate that having only a short education is a particularly strong predictor of social assistance dependency. Parental social assistance receipt and moving out of the parental home at a young age are also significant predictors of social assistance receipt.

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Section: Life Course and Social Assistance Dynamicsmentioning

confidence: 93%

Social assistance trajectories among young adults in Finland: What are the determinants of welfare dependency?

Ilmakunnas

Moisio

2018

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“…Ringbäck Weitoft et al, 2008;Vauhkonen et al, 2017), and the evidence from the Nordic countries indicates intergenerational transmission of social assistance (e.g. Stenberg, 2000;Moisio et al, 2015). Among young adults, parental social assistance receipt is especially associated with long-term take-up of social assistance (Ilmakunnas and Moisio, 2019).…”

Section: Social Assistance Receipt Across Generationsmentioning

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Social Assistance Dynamics among Young Adults in Finland: Duration Dependence and the Role of Parental Recipiency

Ilmakunnas¹

2020

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The probability of social assistance exit decreasing over time is called negative duration dependence. This is one of the most debated aspects of social assistance receipt. This study analyses duration dependence among young adults in Finland and aims to show how social assistance receipt per se affects the likelihood of exiting social assistance. It also examines whether parental recipiency is associated with duration dependence. While the intergenerational transmission of social assistance has received extensive research attention, there is a scarcity of evidence on whether parental recipiency is associated with social assistance exits and duration effects. This study uses full monthly history of social assistance receipt between ages 19 and 29. The analyses are based on Finnish register data and conducted using discrete-time event-history models (pooled logistic, random-effect logistic and fixed-effect logistic). The findings indicate that controlling for all time-invariant characteristics reduces but does not completely remove duration dependence among young adults. They also show that those whose parents received social assistance are less likely to exit social assistance. In models controlling for all time-invariant characteristics, parental social assistance receipt is also linked with stronger duration dependence. The implications of these findings are discussed.

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“…Ringbäck Weitoft, Hjern, Batljan, and Vinnerljung (2008) compared a large national cohort and related receipt of social assistance at ages 25–26 in 2002 to a number of parental characteristics measured in 1990–1992, including the duration of social assistance receipt. Moisio et al (2015) studied intergenerational relations in social assistance receipt among young adults in Finland, Norway, and Sweden and for different cohorts using data from the end of the 1990s until 2008.…”

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Social Assistance Receipt Among Young Adults Who Grow Up in Different Neighborhoods of Metropolitan Sweden

Gustafsson¹,

Katz

Österberg³

2019

Poverty & Public Policy

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Using large samples of persons born in 1985, we investigate the relationship between characteristics of the neighborhood where young people lived as adolescents and the probability that they will receive social assistance when aged 19, 20, and 21, for the three Swedish metropolitan regions-Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. We estimated logistic regressions separately for the majority population and "visible immigrants" and included several characteristics of the neighborhood and of the parental home in the specification. The probability of social assistance receipt as a young adult is strongly positively linked to social assistance receipt in the parental home and to several other factors. The major result is that the association with social assistance receipt in the neighborhood where a person lived at age 16 remains strong when parental receipt and a number of other neighborhood characteristics are controlled for. We conclude that measures to increase the education qualifications and various efforts to create jobs for young adults have the potential to decrease social assistance receipt among young adults. In addition, there is also room for spatially focused measures aiming to reduce residential segregation and the demand for social assistance in locations with a comparably high rate of social assistance receipt.KEY WORDS: neighborhood effects, intergenerational correlations, visible minorities, Sweden, social assistance 通过使用出生在1985年的大型人口样本, 我们研究了瑞典三个大都市地区-斯德哥尔摩、哥德堡和玛尔摩-中不同社区(年青人曾在未成年期间在此生活过)的特征, 和他们在19岁、20岁和 21岁时将接收社会援助的可能性之间的关系。我们对主要人口和"可见的移民"分别进行了逻辑回归模型预测, 并在模型设定中添加了社区和父母家庭的几个特征。一名青年成人接收社会援助的可能性与其父母家庭对社会援助的接收和几个其他因素呈显著正相关。主要研究发现表明, 就个人在16岁时曾生活过的社区而言, 当对父母的社会援助接收和一系列其他社区特征进行控制时, 个人与社会援助接收的联系依然显著。我们的结论认为, 那些增加教育资历的措施和为青年成人创造工作机会的各种努力有可能减少青年成人对社会援助的接收。此外, 那些旨在减少居住隔离, 减少社会援助接收率相对较高的地区对社会援助的需求的空间措施也存在潜力。关键词：社会援助, 瑞典, 社区 Utilizando grandes muestras de personas nacidas en 1985, investigamos la relación entre las características del vecindario donde los jóvenes vivían como adolescentes y la probabilidad de que reciban 302 asistencia social cuando tengan 19, 20 y 21 años, para las tres regiones metropolitanas suecas: Estocolmo, Gotemburgo y Malmö. Estimamos las regresiones logísticas por separado para la población mayoritaria y los "inmigrantes visibles" e incluimos varias características del vecindario y del hogar parental en la especificación. La probabilidad de recibir asistencia social como adulto joven está fuertemente relacionada con la recepción de asistencia social en el hogar parental y con varios otros factores. El resultado principal es que la asociación con el recibo de asistencia social en el vecindario donde vivía una persona a los 16 años se mantiene fuerte cuando se controla el recibo de los padres y otras características del vecindario. Concluimos que las medidas para aumentar las calificaciones educativas y los diversos esfuerzos para crear empleos para los adultos jóvenes tienen el potencial de disminuir la recepción de asistencia social entre los adultos jóvenes. Además, también hay espa...

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Trends in the Intergenerational Transmission of Social Assistance in the Nordic Countries in the 2000s

Cited by 11 publications

References 30 publications

Social assistance trajectories among young adults in Finland: What are the determinants of welfare dependency?

Social assistance trajectories among young adults in Finland: What are the determinants of welfare dependency?

Social Assistance Dynamics among Young Adults in Finland: Duration Dependence and the Role of Parental Recipiency

Social Assistance Receipt Among Young Adults Who Grow Up in Different Neighborhoods of Metropolitan Sweden

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