Longer to Launch: Demographic Changes in Life-Course Transitions

Rosemary A. Venne

Chapter 4 in Ways of Living, 2010, pp 75-98 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Since the late twentieth century, a new pattern has been witnessed in the life-course transitions of youth; it is one that is more prolonged and complex than it was a generation ago. Labelled as ‘longer to launch.’ the term refers to young people finishing their education, beginning their careers, and leaving their parents’ homes later in life. Their transitions are not necessarily a one-step linear process. Rather, due to the increasing ages of home-leaving and the increasing percentage of youth who return to the parental home (after an initial departure), the phenomenon is one that is more complex as the literature on the cluttered nest (versus the empty nest) informs us (see Boyd and Norris, 2000 and Mitchell, 2006a)

Keywords: Young Worker; Postwar Period; Career Pattern; Aboriginal Youth; United States Census Bureau (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230273993_4

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