@unpublished{theses_frw3961,
          author = {Jonas Kemmerling},
            year = {2022},
           title = {Young Adults? Housing Tenure Choices after Leaving the  Parental Home: An Empirical Analysis Based on the German SOEP},
             url = {https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3961/},
        abstract = {In this master?s thesis, I examined the housing tenure choices of young adults after leaving the 
parental home. By distinguishing between four tenure types in owning, renting, subletting, and 
living in dormitories, I could add to the existing literature on housing and provide new insights 
into the housing careers of home leavers. I used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel 
and assessed the housing tenures of 4,312 home leavers between 1985 and 2019. While four 
out of five home leavers choose to rent, a considerable share of 14.59 \% live in sublet dwellings 
or dormitories immediately after leaving. Over the five-year period covered in my analysis, 
transitions to homeownership and renting take place. For an assessment of the determinants of 
these choices, I used multinomial logistic regressions with individual, background, and 
contextual predictors. The multivariate results show that income is positively associated with 
homeownership, whereas university enrolment and unstable employment arrangements 
increase the log-odds of subletting and living in dormitories. Furthermore, cohabitation and 
family formation is an important determinant of homeownership at later time-points. Overall, 
the findings are in line with the literature and support my hypotheses which were derived from 
a life course approach focusing on interactions between life domains.}
}