Living Arrangements of Young Adults in Europe

Comparative research suggests that there are great cross-national and cross-temporal differences in living arrangements of young adults aged 18-34 in Europe. In this paper, we examine young adults’ living arrangements (1) across several European countries and different national contexts, and (2) by taking into account cross-time variability. In doing so, we pay careful attention to a comprehensive conceptualisation of living arrangements (including extended and non-family living arrangements). The aim of this paper is to deepen our understanding of family structure and household arrangements in Europe by examining and mapping the cross-national and cross-temporal variety of young adults’ living arrangements. For our analysis we use data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series International (IPUMSi) for the census rounds 1980, 1990, and 2000 for eight European countries (Austria, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Portugal, Romania, and Switzerland). We employ log-linear models to ascertain the influence of individual and contextual factors on living arrangements. The analyses lend further support to a North/West – South/East divide in living arrangements and general gender differentials in extended family living. Other interesting results are the heterogeneity in the living arrangements of single mothers across geographic areas, and the upward trend of extended household living for young men and women between 1980 and 2000.

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Cross-National Variation in the Link Between Parental Socio-Economic Status and Union Formation and Dissolution Processes

Social Background and the Demographic Life Course: Cross-National Comparisons ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-67345-1_2 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 17-34

Author(s):

M. D. (Anne) Brons

Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Cultural Change ◽

Economic Status ◽

European Countries ◽

Union Formation ◽

Socio Economic Status ◽

Country Level ◽

Union Dynamics ◽

Analytical Tools ◽

Cross National

AbstractThe main objective of this chapter is to understand the link between parental socio-economic status (SES) and union formation and dissolution processes from a cross-national comparative perspective. According to the Second Demographic Transition (SDT) theory, it can be expected that the impact of parental background on these union dynamics differs across societal contexts. Integrated results from prior studies using meta-analytical tools indicate that in many European countries, young adults from advantaged backgrounds delay their first co-residential union and have a higher risk to dissolve their union compared to young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds. The strength of this link between parental SES and union dynamics varies across countries. There is suggestive evidence that the link between parental SES and union dynamics is weakest in North-Western European countries that are most advanced in the SDT. However, next to these SDT-related indicators that focus more on cultural change, institutional country-level indicators, like the extent of educational expansion, and economic country-level indicators, such as the level of economic uncertainty, might also play a role.

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Narratives and varieties of everyday transnationalism

Everyday Europe ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447334200.003.0007 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 171-194

Author(s):

Adrian Favell ◽

Janne Solgaard Jensen ◽

David Reimer

Keyword(s):

Reference Point ◽

Qualitative Interviews ◽

European Countries ◽

The South ◽

North West ◽

Cross Border ◽

Points Of View ◽

The Cross ◽

Cross National ◽

West European

The chapter introduces the cross-national comparative material offered by the qualitative interviews conducted in the EUMEAN survey. Building on Juan Díez Medrano’s study (2003) of how Europe is framed differently by Germans, Spanish and British, the chapter focuses on the discussions about mobility and cross-border experiences of residents of the five West European countries in EUCROSS (i.e., also adding Denmark and Italy in comparative terms). Taking the confident identities of Danes in Europe as its reference point, it contrasts the less experienced but sometimes more idealist points of view of Spanish and Italians, with the more doubtful voices of Germans and British. Tensions in their cross-border relations also surface, particularly between the privileged North-West of the continent and the South.

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Beyond the Economic-Need Hypothesis: A Life-Course Explanation of Women’s Extended Family Living Arrangements in Chile

Journal of Family Issues ◽

10.1177/0192513x211022396 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 0192513X2110223

Author(s):

Julieta Palma

Keyword(s):

Life Course ◽

Living Arrangements ◽

Extended Family ◽

Factors Affecting ◽

Lone Mothers ◽

Family Living ◽

Household Heads ◽

Family Strategy ◽

Economic Need ◽

Extended Households

Previous research has mainly understood household extension as a family strategy to face economic deprivation, giving little attention to other factors affecting it. Using 2017 data from the National Socioeconomic Characterization Survey, this article evaluates the role played by economic and life-course factors in extended family living arrangements among women in family units in Chile ( n = 60,111). Results indicate that economic needs are an important driver for those seeking refuge in someone else’s home, but they are less important for those hosting other relatives within their household. Importantly, the likelihood of living in an extended household—and the position that family units occupy within the household (as head-families or subfamilies)—changes over the life span. Young women (15–34 years) are more likely to live in extended households as sub-families, while middle-aged women (45–64 years) tend to live in extended households as household heads, hosting young cohabiting couples, or lone mothers.

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Understanding the Living Arrangements of Latino Immigrants: A Life Course Approach

International Migration Review ◽

10.1177/019791839803200101 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 32 (1) ◽

pp. 3-19 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Susan Blank ◽

Ramon S. Torrecilha

Keyword(s):

Life Course ◽

Puerto Rican ◽

Living Arrangements ◽

Extended Family ◽

Panel Study ◽

Latino Immigrants ◽

Household Composition ◽

Family Living ◽

And Migration ◽

Cuban Immigrants

Using data from the 1990 Panel Study of Income Dynamics Latino Sample, this study examines three competing hypotheses for understanding extended family living among Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban immigrants. The findings indicate no significant relationship between living with extended kin and cultural indicators — such as English fluency – or economic factors – such as employment and income. Rather, the data support a life course explanation. Extended family living arrangements among Latino immigrants represent a resource generating strategy for caring for young children and older adults. Differences in age, relative location in the life course, and migration opportunities inform group variation in extended living arrangements for Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban immigrants. These findings verify patterns of household composition among Latino immigrants suggested by nonrandom, ethnographic samples.

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The Changing Role of Education in the Marriage Market:Assortative Marriage in Canada and the United States since the 1970s

The Canadian Journal of Sociology ◽

10.29173/cjs551 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Feng Hou ◽

John Myles

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Young Adults ◽

Linear Models ◽

Census Data ◽

The United States ◽

Educational Homogamy ◽

Educational Distribution ◽

Log Linear ◽

Changing Role

Whether or not relative rates of assortative marriage have been rising in the affluent democracies has been subject to considerable dispute. First, we show how the conflicting empirical findings that have fueled the debate are frequently an artifact of alternative methodological strategies for answering the question. Then, drawing on comparable census data for Canada and the United States, we examine trends in educational homogamy and intermarriage with log-linear models for all marriages among young adults under 35 over three decades. Our results show that educational homogamy, the tendency of like to marry like, has unambiguously risen in both countries since the 1970s. Rising levels of marital homogamy were the result of declining intermarriage at both ends of the educational distribution.

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