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Leaving home in Europe: the experience of cohorts born around 1960

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Francesco C. Billari (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany)
Dimiter Philipov (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany)
Pau Baizán Munoz (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany)

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In this paper we analyse the leaving home experience of men and women born around 1960 in 16 European countries. We use extensive empirical evidence from Fertility and Family Survey data, providing a large-scale comparison. We focus on some key indicators of the process of leaving home: the timing, sequencing and synchronisation of leaving home with the end of education and the formation of a first union. As far as these dimensions of leaving home are concerned, Europe appears to be extremely heterogeneous, and explaining this will undoubtedly be a challenge. The complex interplay between the present economic situation of young people and long-term institutional and cultural factors is thought to be the main driving factor. Our findings constitute a benchmark against which subsequent behaviour, such as that of cohorts coming of age after the fall of the Iron Curtain, could be compared. (AUTHORS)

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