Delayed Transition to Adulthood in Korea between 1990 and 2010: A Latent Class Analysis

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Abstract

Due to the rapid expansion of higher education, young adults in Korea are the most educated population in the world. As such, Korean experiences may provide a useful insight into potential outcomes of transition to adulthood related to young adults’ various statuses in other countries where the increasing share of young adults bounds for college. Using individual-level data from 1990 and 2010 Korean Census, we present some descriptive trends and patterns of transition to adulthood – age variation in combined status of education and working and combined status of marriage and independent living, and the percentage of men and women who achieved 4 or 5 (all) markers of adulthood by age 34. Then we conduct latent class analysis to identify a small number of latent classes depending on the probabilities of achieving each marker by age 30.

Author

• Soo-Yeon Yoon, University of Pennsylvania