You can’t go home again. Independent living in Uruguay in the context of delayed transitions to adulthood
Resumen:
This paper analyzes how the transition out of the parental home has changed in the last two and a half decades in Uruguay. Using National Household Surveys from 1981 to 2005, we show that although young people in Uruguay have postponed the formation of new households, considerable gaps still exist between individuals from different socio-economic backgrounds. The most educated have avoided further delays in their emancipation by adopting non-family living arrangements as an increasingly popular alternative. Women have experienced the most significant change, reflecting the movement towards more egalitarian relationships between genders. Although the greatest proportional decline of young people living independently has been experienced in a period of relatively favorable economic conditions, our findings suggest that for a large part of the population, the postponement of the formation of a new household is a coping mechanism rather than a choice.
El presente trabajo analiza algunos de los cambios en los procesos de emancipación de los jóvenes en los últimos 25 años en Uruguay. Usando información de Encuestas Continua de Hogares entre 1981 y 2005, se muestra que los jóvenes uruguayos han retrasado la salida del hogar de origen, aunque existen diferencias según nivel educativo y socio-económico. Los más educados han evitado retrasos mayores en la formación de un hogar propio adoptando los arreglos no familiares como una alternativa crecientemente aceptada. Las mujeres, por otro lado, han experimentado los mayores cambios en el proceso de emancipación, como resultado de su mayor participación en el mercado de trabajo y la tendencia hacia la reducción de las desigualdades de género. A pesar de que la caída más significativa en la formación de hogares se dio en un período de relativo bienestar económico, nuestros resultados muestran que para muchos jóvenes el retraso en la emancipación es una adaptación a condiciones desfavorables más que una elección.
2010 | |
JUVENTUD EMANCIPACION HOGAR |
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Inglés | |
Universidad de la República | |
COLIBRI | |
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/40354 | |
Acceso abierto | |
Licencia Creative Commons Atribución - No Comercial - Sin Derivadas (CC - By-NC-ND 4.0) |
Sumario: | This paper analyzes how the transition out of the parental home has changed in the last two and a half decades in Uruguay. Using National Household Surveys from 1981 to 2005, we show that although young people in Uruguay have postponed the formation of new households, considerable gaps still exist between individuals from different socio-economic backgrounds. The most educated have avoided further delays in their emancipation by adopting non-family living arrangements as an increasingly popular alternative. Women have experienced the most significant change, reflecting the movement towards more egalitarian relationships between genders. Although the greatest proportional decline of young people living independently has been experienced in a period of relatively favorable economic conditions, our findings suggest that for a large part of the population, the postponement of the formation of a new household is a coping mechanism rather than a choice. |
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