Safety First? On the Timing of Moving in With a Partner and Its Determinants

Julia Zimmermann; Gerald Prein

doi:10.2478/sjs-2023-0020

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Safety First? On the Timing of Moving in With a Partner and Its Determinants

Swiss Journal of Sociology

Volume 49 (2023): Issue 2 (July 2023)

By: Julia Zimmermann and Gerald Prein

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Abstract

We analyze the first cohabitation with a partner as one of the key events in the transition to adulthood and consider its interdependencies with other life events, using life course data from the survey AID:A 2019 of the German Youth Institute (DJI). A remarkable finding is that for men, cohabitation with a partner usually occurs after an individual’s entry into permanent employment.

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