Although cohabitation and childbearing within cohabitation has increased dramatically in Europe over the past decades …, the variation across Europe remains remarkable. Most studies on changing union formation have not explicitly addressed how … state policies may be facilitating cohabitation or, alternatively, stalling the increase of cohabitation by privileging …

Childbearing within cohabitation has gained considerable ground in recent decades, but existing explanations for this … cohabitation being related to a “pattern of disadvantage” as they are often concentrated among individuals faced with blocked …

births within cohabitation. Relatively few studies in Europe, however, investigate the educational gradient of childbearing … hazard models to examine the educational gradient of childbearing in cohabitation in 8 countries across Europe. In all … within cohabitation or how it changed over time. Using retrospective union and fertility histories, we employ competing risk …

, cohabitation and marriage, parenthood and union dissolution. Multiple Classification Analysis (MCA) is used to control for … central and Eastern Europe. Such pattern robustness is supportive of the contention that the ideational or â …

research has focused on poverty among young adults. Using the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) we provide a detailed … description of youth poverty in Europe. Across the European Union youth poverty varies greatly, being higher in Southern European …