Trajetórias de local de moradia, estudo e trabalho dos jovens Brasileiros entre 2003 e 2011: Uma análise de entropia

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.