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

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.

Keywords

• cohabitation
• permanent employment
• school-to-work-transitions
• trajectories
• event history analysis