ABSTRACT
The best prediction for non-students is obtained for Spanish men, followed by French men, Spanish women and French women. This reveals that the male models always show a better fit than the female models, which suggests that in the female cases non-measured variables such as the availability of economic help from a male partner or/and non-material aspects of the quality of life have a high relevance for their nest-leaving probabilities. The socio-economic models predict somewhat better for Spaniards than for the French with the exception of Spanish male students. In Spain, male first-job seekers have an even lower probability of living outside of the parental home than students if both are compared to long-term employed men. If one takes the sample of young people out of formal education, it appears that first-job seekers always have less probabilities of living independently than people with long-term employment.
