Coabitação e mobilidade domiciliar: evidências para o Brasil

Abstract

Data from Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (IBGE) shown that, in year 2002, one quarter of 26-25-year-old Brazilian adults were “Twixters” and kept living with their parents. Ten years after, this rate rose over 30 percent. It is possible, however, that this growth has been motivated due to economic factors. If so, these young may be extending the time spent coresiding with their parents as a strategy to develop a higher reservation wage or more years of education, smoothing their future transition to household independence. This paper proposes to gather evidences about an increase in average coresidence duration in Brazil and to investigate if increases are related to occupational condition and higher demand for human capital. In this regard, we tempt to detect 18-35 years kids who left parental household using data from Brazilian Monthly Employment Survey (PME) from 2002 to 2015. We then regress the ‘exit probability’ against variables such as household characteristics, occupation, years of education and school/college attendance. We find that Brazilian kids have been extending their average spent time on coresidence, mostly male adults aged 26-35. We also find that being unemployed or attending school/college has a negative impact on quitting coresidence status’ probability.