The book reveals that family members serve as role models to younger family members and influence their career and educational aspirations, and that there are specific family value orientations and parental approaches which support economic self-sufficiency in younger generations.

1. Intergenerational transmission of economic self-sufficiency: an introduction; Jale Tosun, Daniela Pauknerová and Bernhard Kittel.- 2. Analytical Framework; Jale Tosun, Daniela Pauknerová and Bernhard Kittel.- 3. Ambitions and Traditions: Intergenerational Transmission of Work Attitudes in Austria; Julia-Rita Warmuth, Stefanie Stadlober, Eva Wimmer & Bernhard Kittel.- 4. Looking Beyond the Family Nest: Self-sufficiency of Young Adults and Intergenerational Transmission of Values and Resources in Czech Republic; Daniela Pauknerová, Zuzana Chytkova and Jan Hanzlík.- 5. Limits of Welfare. How the family remains pivotal for work attitudes in the “youth enabling” welfare state of Denmark; Christoph Arndt and Carsten Jensen.- 6. Between adaption and rejection: Intergenerational transmission of resources and work values in Germany; Robert Strohmeyer and Julia Weiß.- 7. Intergenerational Transmission of Resources and Values in Times of Crisis: Shifts in Young Adults’ Employment and Education in Greece ; Asimina Christoforou, Evmorfia Makantasi, Kyriakos Pierrakakis & Panos Tsakloglou.- 8. By the Sweat of Your Parents’ Brow: Self-sufficiency of Young Adults and Intergenerational Transmission of Values and Resources in Hungary Dániel Kovarek and Róbert Sata.- 9. Family history matters: the road to self-sufficiency in Italy; Maurizio Caserta, Livio Ferrante, Simona Monteleone, Francesco Reito, Salvatore Spagano.- 10. Intergenerational Transmission of Family Work Values and Economic Self-Sufficiency of Young Individuals in Spain; José  L. Arco-Tirado, Francisco Fernández-Martín, Irene Herranz and Mihaela Vancea.- 11. Dependently Independent: Intergenerational Transmission of Values, Attitudes, and Resources in Switzerland; Carolin Rapp and Kerstin Nebel.- 12. Differences Across Generations and Stability of Values in the Turbulence of Social Change; Nebi Sümer, Zeynep Cemalcılar, Haluk Mert Bal.- 13. Cash and Class: Intergenerational transmission of values and capital and the consequences for social mobility in the UK; Emily Rainsford and Anna Wambach.- 14. Conclusion; Jale Tosun, Daniela Pauknerová and Bernhard Kittel.

European countries have faced profound changes in family structures and family forms over the last few decades. This volume provides insights from eleven European countries with varying welfare state arrangements, exploring the extent to which the intergenerational transmission of attitudes, resources and values matter with regard to the economic self-sufficiency of young people. Drawing on in-depth interviews with three generations of family members, the contributors show how intergenerational transmission happens and what the effects of these transmission processes are. The book reveals that family members serve as role models to younger family members and influence their career and educational aspirations, and that there are specific family value orientations and parental approaches which support economic self-sufficiency in younger generations.Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Self-Sufficiency will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including social work, sociology, psychology and political sociology.

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