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Getting on Their Bikes: Teenagers Leaving Home in Scotland in the 1980s*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Andy Furlong  and
George H. Cooney
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Abstract

New restrictions on the payment of income support and housing benefit to young people are likely to affect their ability to leave the family home. Yet little is known about the sorts of young people who leave home and the likely effects of the changes. This paper uses nationally representative data to look at the characteristics of Scottish teenagers who have left home, the reasons they gave for leaving home and the sorts of problems they faced on leaving. We also examine the labour market experiences of teenage leavers, and compare their experiences with young people who remained in the family home.

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Journal of Social Policy , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , October 1990 , pp. 535 - 551
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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