Leaving the parental home during the COVID-19 pandemic : the case of Southern Europe
Copyright © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved..
In 2020, COVID-19-related governmental restrictions forced individuals to radically change their habits, possibly impacting on their living arrangements. Whether COVID-19 affected young adults' propensity to leave the parental home is still unknown; Southern Europe is of particular interest, as youth experience the "latest-late" transition to adulthood, face uncertainty in the labor market, and receive low welfare support. Using EU-SILC longitudinal data from Greece, Spain, Italy, and Portugal, this study examines how home-leaving rates evolved in the short-term and explores the relationship between governmental restrictions, economic characteristics of households and young adults, and leaving home behaviors. Descriptive analyses reveal that the share of young adults leaving the parental home in Southern Europe between 2019 and 2020 slightly increased compared to previous years. Discrete-time event history models show that the propensity to leave the parental home increases with the stringency of policy measures. Young adults with the highest likelihood to leave home are employed individuals whose households are in the lowest income quintile as well as students from the highest income quintile, suggesting that, in these countries, residential independence is associated with either the acquisition of economic resources in the labor market or the availability of family resources. We interpret this result in favor of an "independence effect" exerted by COVID-19-related restrictions on young adults; future research might establish whether this trend is temporary or persistent over time.
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2024 |
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:59 |
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Advances in life course research - 59(2024) vom: 30. März, Seite 100594 |
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Englisch |
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Ferraretto, Valeria [VerfasserIn] |
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Date Completed 08.03.2024 Date Revised 08.03.2024 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
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10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100594 |
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