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Labour market prospects of young adults in Europe: differential effects of social origin during the Great Recession
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Abstract Research on the direct effect of social origin (DESO) focuses on how background influences later labour market outcomes after accounting for education. Growing up in a household of low social origin might decrease the chances of certain future outcomes; however, the extent to which this matters is c... view more
Research on the direct effect of social origin (DESO) focuses on how background influences later labour market outcomes after accounting for education. Growing up in a household of low social origin might decrease the chances of certain future outcomes; however, the extent to which this matters is contingent on the economic cycle. Using the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) and the European Social Survey (ESS) between 2002 and 2014, we analyse whether the gap in the DESO in terms of employment and earnings widened following the Great Recession for young adults (25-34) in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom. Our results suggest that young adults of high social origin faced more disadvantages in terms of employment than young adults of low social origin in France, Spain and the United Kingdom. On the other hand, analyses show that young adults of low social origin experienced more disadvantages in terms of earnings than their counterparts of high social origin in Spain.... view less
Keywords
labor market; young adult; recession; adulthood; world economy; social background; France; Federal Republic of Germany; Italy; Poland; Spain; Great Britain; deprivation; income; employment
Classification
Labor Market Research
Sociology of the Youth, Sociology of Childhood
Free Keywords
intergenerational transmission; Great Recession; transition to adulthood; DESO; EU-SILC 2005; EU-SILC 2011
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 521-547
Journal
European Societies, 24 (2022) 5
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2022.2043409
ISSN
1469-8307
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0