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The Housing Consequences of Living Arrangement Choices in Young Adulthood.
- Source :
- Housing Studies; Sep2003, Vol. 18 Issue 5, p703, 17p
- Publication Year :
- 2003
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Abstract
- This paper documents the consequences of the first living arrangements of young adults after leaving the parental home (without a partner, cohabiting, or married) for their housing situation, whether they rent independently, share accommodation, or own their own homes, both immediately after leaving home and in the first eight years after leaving. Data are analysed from two retrospective life-course surveys conducted in the Netherlands in the 1990s, using multinomial logistic regression models. The paper finds a strong influence of the timing and pathway of leaving on the housing situation immediately after leaving: those nest-leavers who make stronger commitments in their household careers (by cohabiting, or by marrying) are more likely to own a home and less likely to share. Although through the years after leaving home this influence decreases, it remains discernible and significant even eight years after leaving. This is remarkable, given the fluidity of the housing careers of nest-leavers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- HOUSING
HOUSE buying
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02673037
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Housing Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 10665380
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02673030304255