Young Brazilians’ housing, education and work trajectories between 2003 and 2011: an entropy analysis

Authors

  • Thiago Dumont Oliveira UFMG/Cedeplar
  • André Braz Golgher UFMG/Cedeplar
  • Pedro Mendes Loureiro University of London

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20947/S0102-309820160003

Keywords:

Entropy analysis, Household composition, Education, Labor market, Transition to adulthood

Abstract

Academic evidence from all over the world, including Brazil, shows that young people have increasingly delayed the decision to leave their parents’ home since the 1970s. This paper studies the decisions of young people regarding living with their parents, studying and working. Our goal is to evaluate how young people’s transition to adulthood changed as a result of sustained economic growth between 2003 and 2011. Using the National Household Sample Surveys (PNADs) of 2003 and 2011, we calculate the proportion of people between 15 and 34 years in
metropolitan areas living with parents, studying and working. The fraction of young people living with their parents did not change significantly between 2003 and 2011, but there was a drop in school attendance and the proportion of young people working increased. In order to assess the interplay of these three dimensions we performed an entropy analysis. Our results suggest a reversal of the pattern of extending youth which has been widely debated over the last decades.

DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.20947/S0102-309820160003

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Author Biographies

Thiago Dumont Oliveira, UFMG/Cedeplar

Thiago Dumont Oliveira é graduado em Ciências Econômicas pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) e mestrando em economia no Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional (Cedeplar/UFMG).

André Braz Golgher, UFMG/Cedeplar

André Braz Golgher é graduado em Física pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), mestre em Química pela UFMG e doutor em Demografia pelo Centro de  Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional  (Cedeplar/UFMG). É professor adjunto do Cedeplar e Face da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

Pedro Mendes Loureiro, University of London

Pedro Mendes Loureiro é graduado em Ciências Econômicas pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), mestre em economia pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) e doutorando em Economia na Soas, University of London

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Published

2016-05-10

How to Cite

Oliveira, T. D., Golgher, A. B., & Loureiro, P. M. (2016). Young Brazilians’ housing, education and work trajectories between 2003 and 2011: an entropy analysis. Brazilian Journal of Population Studies, 33(1), 31–52. https://doi.org/10.20947/S0102-309820160003

Issue

Vol. 33 No. 1 (2016)

Section

Original Articles

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