Uncertain steps into adulthood: Does economic precariousness hinder entry into the first co-residential partnership in the UK?

Lydia Palumbo, Ann Berrington, Peter Eibich and Agnese Vitali
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Lydia Palumbo: MPIDR - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Ann Berrington: University of Southampton
Peter Eibich: MPIDR - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Legos - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Gestion des Organisations de Santé - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, LEDa - Laboratoire d'Economie de Dauphine - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Agnese Vitali: "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics, IMQ and IGIER - Università Bocconi

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Abstract: This study uses prospective data spanning 27 years (1991–2018) to explore the relationship between economic precariousness and transitions to first co-residential partnership among Britons aged 18–34 across three dimensions: age, historical time, and sex. Economic precariousness is measured using eight objective and subjective indicators, including income, employment, housing, and financial perceptions. Our results show that economic precariousness has a strong negative relationship with entering the first co-residential partnership among those aged 20–30, but the pattern is less clear among the youngest and oldest. Objective measures are easier to interpret than subjective measures. Historical analyses suggest that not being employed decreases the probability of union formation more in recessionary periods than in non-recessionary ones. Among working women, low labour income started to be a predictor of union formation in the most recent periods. Labour income is the only indicator presenting trends in line with our hypotheses across all dimensions.

Keywords: United Kingdom; unemployment; transition into adulthood; marriage; cohabitation; precarity; economic precariousness; partnership formation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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Published in Population Studies, 2024, 77 (2), pp.263-289. ⟨10.1080/00324728.2022.2102672⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2022.2102672

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