Coping with yo-yo-transitions. Young adults' struggle for support, between family and state in comparative perspective

A New Youth?: Young People, Generations and Family Life

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 41-62

  Biggart, Andy ^a   Walther, Andreas ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute for Regional Innovation and Social Research (IRIS)   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

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