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Becoming an Adult in Europe: A Macro(/Micro)-Demographic Perspective

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Francesco C. Billari (University of Milan)

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Extreme cases in demography are important challenges for researchers, and the still important heterogeneity of European societies is a blessing for scholars interested in studying the importance of cultural and institutional factors. In the transition to adulthood the "latest-late" pattern of Southern Europe cohabits with its opposite "earliest-early" pattern of the Nordic countries. In this paper, I discuss multifaceted approaches to the explanation of why becoming an "adult" in Europe appears so diverse. I use secondary data analyses and present cross-country correlations: welfare state and institutional arrangements, historical and deeply rooted cultural differences, as well as economic and policy factors, and ideational change. Moreover, micro-level determinants play different roles in different societies. Future research on the transition to adulthood in Europe needs to be multilevel, comparative and interdisciplinary, and to consider the potential implication of persistent differences in patterns.

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Article provided by Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany in its journal Demographic Research Special Collections.

Volume (Year): 3 (2004)
Issue (Month): 2 (April)
Pages: 15-44
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Keywords: comparative demography; cross-country relationships; earliest-early; Europe; latest-late; micro-macro; transition to adulthood;

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J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

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