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Poverty and living arrangements among youth in Spain, 1980-2005

One of the most relevant demographic events in Spain from a recent historical perspective was the baby boom of the 1960s and 1970s. The “adapting to circumstances” of these generations of youth and their families through delayed emancipation and childbearing has been key in preventing a decline in their economic status. The results show that the reduction of the poverty risk among non-emancipated youth for the period 1980-2005 is explained by the fact that an increasing number of young Spaniards live with two employed parents. Thus, emancipation delay is found most in those families that can best afford it. Furthermore, the salaries of young workers remaining in the parental home have become an important factor in reducing their family poverty risk. On the other hand, fertility decline is readily explained by the economic difficulties young couples encounter in sustaining their offspring

Demographic Research, 2009, vol. 20, p. 17

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Autor: Ayllón, Sara
Data: 2009
Resum: One of the most relevant demographic events in Spain from a recent historical perspective was the baby boom of the 1960s and 1970s. The “adapting to circumstances” of these generations of youth and their families through delayed emancipation and childbearing has been key in preventing a decline in their economic status. The results show that the reduction of the poverty risk among non-emancipated youth for the period 1980-2005 is explained by the fact that an increasing number of young Spaniards live with two employed parents. Thus, emancipation delay is found most in those families that can best afford it. Furthermore, the salaries of young workers remaining in the parental home have become an important factor in reducing their family poverty risk. On the other hand, fertility decline is readily explained by the economic difficulties young couples encounter in sustaining their offspring
Format: application/pdf
Cita: 015387
ISSN: 1435-9871 (versió paper)
1435-9871 (versió electrònica)
Accés al document: http://hdl.handle.net/10256/8620
Llenguatge: eng
Editor: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Col·lecció: Reproducció digital del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2009.20.17
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És part de: Demographic Research, 2009, vol. 20, p. 17
Drets: Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Spain
URI Drets: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/es/
Matèria: Pobresa -- Espanya
Poverty -- Spain
Títol: Poverty and living arrangements among youth in Spain, 1980-2005
Tipus: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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