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Stefano Filauro is an economist currently working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Dondena Center. His primary research interests lie in welfare economics, particularly in the areas of income and wealth inequalities, housing costs and poverty ana ...
Predoctoral Researcher
Elena Neri is a predoctoral researcher working on the ERC project FRAILIFE, which investigates the impact of child disability on family members and peers. Currently completing a MSc in Economics and Social Sciences with a BSc in International Po ...
2013 - n° 57 28/05/2020
The paper gives an update to earlier analysis considering youth poverty and transition to adulthood, which is timely given the economic crisis engulfing many countries in Europe. Whereas, the crisis is affecting young people in particular, there is also huge variation across Europe. We document the short-term consequences of the current recession on the transition to adulthood of young Europeans, focusing on two main cornerstones in the transition to adulthood: economic independence and residential autonomy. We show an almost universal increase in financial hardship experienced by young adults during the recession, which is starting to translate into higher rates of co-residence with parents, hence delaying the process of leaving home and gaining economic independence. The economic recession will have a huge impact on young people and their the transition to adulthood. Economic deprivation and uncertainty will most likely delay the key markers of transition to adulthood.
Arnstein Aassve, Elena Cottini, Agnese Vitali
Keywords: transition to adulthood,poverty,deprivation,crisis
Laura Bondi is a postdoctoral research associate at the MRC Biostatistics Unit at the University of Cambridge, UK. Previously, she completed her PhD in Statistics at Bocconi University. Her research focuses on developing statistical methodology to so ...
Salvatore Lattanzio is an economist at the Household and Labor Market Division within the Economics, Statistics and Research Department of the Bank of Italy. After an MSc in Economic and Social Sciences at Bocconi University, he received a PhD in Eco ...
2022 - n° 152 22/02/2022

This study provides a review of the concept of family ties. It then measures family ties in an unprecedentedly all-encompassing way, accounting for the individual 
eterogeneity (by context, gender, education and age) that may affect them, looking at the patterns of variation among the different dimensions. Indeed, a large number of indicators have been used in the literature to measure family ties, but the inter-relation among their dimensions has rarely been explicitly taken into account. Furthermore, family ties have been assumed to be invariant among different individuals, without any formal test of this assumption. The analysis is based on Italian National Statistical Office (ISTAT) survey on family and social subjects (FFS 2016) on 24,753 individuals. A Structural Equation Model (SEM) is used to measure the different family tie dimensions and to test their invariance by individual characteristics. The results bring out seven dimensions of family ties. These dimensions are invariant by context and gender, but not by education and age. These findings offer a clear picture of the concept of family ties and show how this concept is differently perceived on the basis of some ascribed and some acquired personal characteristics.

Giorgio Piccitto, Arnstein Aassve, Letizia Mencarini
Keywords: family ties, inter-generational relations, education, gender