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Unemployment, Housing and Household Structure Among Young Adults*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

M. Murphy  and
O. Sullivan
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Abstract

Differentials in unemployment among young adult males are shown to be particularly associated with two factors: housing tenure and early childbearing. Even after controlling for factors such as social class and area of residence, local authority tenants have unemployment rates two or three times as high as owner-occupiers of a similar age. For movers between tenures these differentials are even greater; movers from owner-occupation to local authority tenancy have four times the unemployment rate of those moving in the opposite direction. Large differentials by the family situation of young people are also found, with childless married couples having particularly low unemployment rates. These two aspects are connected by the effect of childbearing filtering couples into different tenures. Finally, the implications for increased social polarization between the two major tenures, and the likely effect on future tenure levels, are discussed.

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Journal of Social Policy , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , April 1986 , pp. 205 - 222
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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