{"content":[{"text":"Patterns of intergenerational \n co-residence. Evidence from former socialist countries","bbox":{"left":0.228213,"top":0.082101,"width":0.5431400000000001,"height":0.042337}},{"text":"Mihaela Hărăguș \n Babes-Bolyai University, Centre for Population Studies","bbox":{"left":0.406051,"top":0.137082,"width":0.474938,"height":0.036132}},{"text":"Abstract \n High intergenerational co-residence in Eastern Europe has been noticed by researchers and its \n levels are usually connected with a historical pattern of family formation with high incidence \n of extended/multigenerational households on the one hand, and the housing situation \n (availability and affordability) on the other hand. A closer look at the household and family \n contexts in the region shows, in terms of traditional household formation patterns, that a \n neolocal-nuclear household formation system was characteristic for Romania, and \n complex/multigenerational households had small proportions in other countries in the region, \n too (e.g. Bulgaria). The post-socialist housing crisis, brought by the privatization of the \n housing stock, the sharply decreasing rhythm of construction of new dwellings and drastic \n decrease in the purchasing power of population, may have been forcing young people to co- \n reside with their parents even after forming their own family. This argument holds especially \n for countries where the transition to the market economy was slow and difficult, such as \n Romania and Bulgaria. We use the Generations and Gender Survey data to investigate \n patterns of co-residence in several eastern European countries, from the perspective of the \n adult children who live with their parents. As previous studies showed, characteristics of both \n adult children and elderly parents matter. We investigate the effect of the opportunity and \n needs structure of the children (employment status, income, education) and of the parents \n (income, health status, home ownership) in determining co-residence. Our hypothesis is that \n the (adult) child’s needs, especially in terms of inability to acquire individual housing, are the \n main trigger of co-residence. \n ***","bbox":{"left":0.118968,"top":0.202646,"width":0.7623740000000001,"height":0.362731}},{"text":"Co-residence is depicted in the literature as a form of intergenerational solidarity. It appears \n as an intense type of intergenerational support (Brandt, Haberkern and Szydlik 2009), a form \n of functional intergenerational support (providing a living space) (Isengard and Szydlik \n 2012), and even as the main form of intergenerational support in Southern Europe (Albertini, \n Kohli and Vogel 2007, Jappens and Van Bavel 2012). Co-residence as a form of \n intergenerational solidarity appears mainly in societies where the state takes less \n responsibility for its citizens (Isengard and Szydlik 2012, referring to the Southern European \n countries). Heylen et al. (2012) consider geographic proximity (in West) and co-residence (in \n East, referring to Bulgaria) as a latent form of solidarity that becomes a fundamental mediator \n for actual support in times of need. \n Higher co-residence in the Southern European countries is usually linked with the \n strong family ties, as opposed to weak family ties in the North-West (Reher 1998). Hank \n (2007) refers to the national cultural characteristics, in terms of a nation’s orientation toward \n private or public values, arguing that primary group ties are closer in the more private \n oriented societies from the South and East of Europe, hence a high incidence of co-residence, \n while social networks with more secondary relations (friends and neighbours) are more spread \n in the North and West, hence lower co-residence in these parts. \n In general co-residence is addressed with a focus on Southern Europe, emphasizing the \n much higher incidence in comparison with Northern or Westerns countries. High \n intergenerational co-residence in Eastern Europe has been noticed, but usually it is not","bbox":{"left":0.118968,"top":0.579145,"width":0.762125,"height":0.33050499999999994}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}