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Generational Patterns of Transitions into Adulthood across Europe -
| Berngruber, Anne/Bethmann, Arne (2022): Generational Patterns of Transitions into Adulthood across Europe - It’s Complicated. München Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE-ERIC) Download | |
| t is claimed almost unanimously in international youth research that patterns of
the status passage from youth to adulthood have become more de-standardized
over time. The aim of this paper is to provide a nuanced look at the transitional
patterns from youth to adulthood. The main question is: How do life courses
change across different generations? For this purpose, changes in the timing,
ordering, (de)coupling and interquartile ranges of social, spatial and economic
transition markers are described. We investigate, whether the patterns of these
transitions into adulthood and their interrelations have changed across cohorts
born up to 1935 until the mid-1960s for men and women. Using the SHARELIFE
data collected in waves 3 (2009) and 7 (2017) as part of the SHARE study
we are able to compare life courses of about 90,000 individuals aged 50+ all
across Europe. For the analyses, we use event history analysis. The results of
our paper indicate that social changes are different for the European country
groups (Nordic countries, Baltic States, the Balkans, Western, Eastern and
Southern Europe). There is no consistent pattern found for the whole of Europe.
Therefore, the common practice to use the Western standard male biography
as a comparative baseline—deviations from which would be labeled as ‘de-
standardization’—falls short. We find a large heterogeneity in transition patterns
from youth to adulthood across European regions, which needs to be considered
in further discussions of ‘de-standardization’ processes. | |
