@techreport{Becker2004Insecurity,
abstract = {The age at which children leave the parental home differs considerably across countries. We
present a theoretical model predicting that higher job security of parents and lower job
security of children may delay emancipation. We then provide aggregate evidence which
supports this hypothesis for 12 European countries. We also give microeconometric evidence
for Italy, the single country for which we have access to household-specific information on job
security and coresidence. It is a very interesting case to study since, in the late 1990s,
approximately 75% of young Italians aged 18 to 35 were living at home and they had only a
4% probability of emancipation in the subsequent 3 years. We show that this probability
would have increased by 4 to 10 percentage points if their fathers had gone from having a
fully secure job to becoming unemployed for sure.},
author = {Sascha O. Becker and Samuel Bentolila and Ana Fernandes and Andrea Ichino},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {J2; J1; 330; emancipation; job security; option value; Jugendliche; Alleinlebende; Familiensoziologie; Arbeitsplatzsicherung; Arbeitslosigkeit; Realoption; Sch\"{a}tzung; Italien},
language = {eng},
number = {1046},
title = {Job Insecurity and Children?s Emancipation},
type = {IZA Discussion paper series},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20281},
year = {2004}
}
