Medgyesi Márton, Csathó Ábel
TARKI Social Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary.
Child Opportunities Research Group, HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
Front Sociol. 2024 Mar 8;9:1207807. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1207807. eCollection 2024.
The post-2008 economic recovery period has seen varying degrees of improvement in the well-being of young individuals across different countries, regions, and cities of the EU. This study contributes to the literature on the geography of well-being by examining the impact of urban economic contexts on the subjective well-being of youth in Europe, a topic that has received limited attention so far. Specifically, we investigate how the local economic context has affected financial satisfaction among the young (15-35 age group) in European cities during the recovery period after the economic crisis. We study whether living in a city with better opportunities in the labor market, on the housing market, or with better local services (e.g., education or health care) affect financial satisfaction among the young. We carried out multilevel analysis of financial satisfaction among young adults on data from the Quality of Life in European Cities survey (years 2012, 2015, 2019), which asks about aspects of quality of life among a representative sample of the population in a large number of cities in EU Member States. Overall, the results suggest that a better labor market context (where it is in general easier to find a job) has a statistically significant positive effect on financial satisfaction among the young. Our results also show that satisfaction with the financial situation among young adults is significantly higher in cities with a higher quality of local social services. On the other hand, we have found only small (and statistically non-significant) contextual effect related to the local housing market.
2008年后的经济复苏期,欧盟不同国家、地区和城市的年轻人福祉都有不同程度的改善。本研究通过考察城市经济环境对欧洲年轻人主观福祉的影响,为福祉地理学的文献做出了贡献,这一主题迄今受到的关注有限。具体而言,我们调查了经济危机后的复苏期内,当地经济环境如何影响欧洲城市年轻人(15 - 35岁年龄组)的财务满意度。我们研究生活在劳动力市场、住房市场机会更好或当地服务(如教育或医疗保健)更好的城市,是否会影响年轻人的财务满意度。我们利用欧洲城市生活质量调查(2012年、2015年、2019年)的数据,对年轻人的财务满意度进行了多层次分析,该调查询问了欧盟成员国大量城市中有代表性的人口样本的生活质量方面情况。总体而言,结果表明,更好的劳动力市场环境(一般更容易找到工作)对年轻人的财务满意度有统计学上显著的积极影响。我们的结果还表明,当地社会服务质量较高的城市中,年轻人对财务状况的满意度显著更高。另一方面,我们发现与当地住房市场相关的背景效应很小(且在统计学上不显著)。