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Title: Life on a Tightrope: The Role of Precarious Employment on Moving Back Home
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Kofman, Yelizavetta |
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Life on a Tightrope: The Role of Precarious Employment on Moving Back Home Presented: Chicago IL, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2015 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Employment, Intermittent/Precarious; Propensity Scores; Residence, Return to Parental Home/Delayed Homeleaving; Transition, Adulthood Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. While there is increasing scholarly and public interest in precarious employment--jobs that entail a nonstandard contract, are short term, and/or do not provide fringe benefits--few studies have considered the effects of such employment beyond the workplace. I use panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (N=6650), and event history and propensity score matching methods, to examine the effect of precarious employment on home return and home leaving during young adulthood (age 25-30). Among young adults that have completed their education, had at least one job spell and one spell of living independently, I find significant negative effects of having a nonstandard contract job and of having a short term job on the probability of moving back home. On the other hand, having a job that provides health insurance and having a job with employer-provided retirement savings has a significant positive effect on leaving the parental home after a spell of living at home. This research suggests that it is not only earnings (which I adjust for in all models) that are important factors shaping young adults' transition to independent living; rather, the uncertainty involved in precarious employment may force young adults to rely on their parents as a safety net well into their late 20s. |
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Kofman, Yelizavetta. "Life on a Tightrope: The Role of Precarious Employment on Moving Back Home." Presented: Chicago IL, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2015. |