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Separation, divorce, and housing tenure : a cross-country comparison

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29/10/2019
Author
Mikolai, Júlia
Kulu, Hill
Vidal, Sergi
van der Wiel, Roselinde
Mulder, Clara H.
Keywords
Divorce
Separation
Residential mobility
Housing tenure
Poisson regression
Cross-national comparison
HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
G Geography (General)
3rd-DAS
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Abstract
BACKGROUND Housing tenure after divorce is an important factor in individuals’ well-being. Although previous studies have examined tenure changes following divorce, only a few studies have compared patterns across countries. OBJECTIVE We study the destination tenure type of separated individuals (homeownership, social renting, private renting, other) in Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands and investigate differences by education and parenthood status. We compare the results of partnered and separated individuals. METHODS Applying Poisson regression to longitudinal data from four countries, we study individuals’ likelihood of moving and moving to different tenure types by partnership status. RESULTS Separated individuals are more likely to experience a residential change than those in a relationship in all countries. Following separation, moving to renting is more common than moving to homeownership. In the countries where the data allow distinguishing private renting from social renting, private renting is the most common outcome. The second most common destination is homeownership in Australia, and social renting in Germany and the United Kingdom. We find interesting tendencies by education and parenthood status. Low-educated individuals tend to move to social renting after separation, whereas the highly educated tend to move to homeownership. Separated parents are more likely to move to social and private renting than those who are childless (except in the United Kingdom, where childless separated people tend to move to private renting). CONTRIBUTION The findings highlight striking similarities in individuals’ post-separation residential mobility and housing across countries, despite significant differences in welfare systems and housing markets.
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Mikolai , J , Kulu , H , Vidal , S , van der Wiel , R & Mulder , C H 2019 , ' Separation, divorce, and housing tenure : a cross-country comparison ' , Demographic Research , vol. 41 , 39 , pp. 1131-1146 . https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2019.41.39
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Demographic Research
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2019.41.39
ISSN
1435-9871
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2019 Júlia Mikolai et al. This open-access work is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Germany (CC BY 3.0 DE), which permits use, reproduction, and distribution in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are given credit. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/legalcode.
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PartnerLife is supported by a grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO, grant no. 464–13–148), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, grant no. WA 1502/6–1), and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, grant no. ES/L01663X/1) in the Open Research Area Plus scheme. Clara Mulder's and Roselinde van der Wiel's contributions were also supported by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 740113; FamilyTies project).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/18798

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