Description / Table of Contents:
Divorce in Europe -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Divorce Research in Europe -- 1.2 This Volume -- 1.3 What Will the Future Bring? -- References -- Part I: On Divorce Trends -- Chapter 2: The Conceptual and Empirical Challenges of Estimating Trends in Union Stability: Have Unions Become More Stable in Britain? -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Conceptual Switch from Marital to Union Stability -- 2.3 Estimating Trends in Union Stability -- 2.3.1 Administrative Data -- 2.3.2 Survey Data -- 2.3.3 This Study -- 2.4 Data and Method -- 2.5 Results -- 2.5.1 Comparing Retrospective and Prospective Reports Using a Consistent Sample -- 2.5.2 Re-call Bias -- 2.5.3 Attrition -- 2.5.4 Comparing Retrospective and Prospective Reports of Trends in Union Stability -- 2.6 Discussion -- References -- Chapter 3: On Increasing Divorce Risks -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 How to Explain Historical Trends in Divorce Rates -- 3.2.1 A Micro Model of Marital Instability -- 3.2.2 Hypotheses -- 3.2.3 Two Types of Social Change: Cultural and Socio-Structural Change -- 3.3 Empirical Findings -- 3.3.1 Explanation of Cohort and Period Effects -- 3.3.2 Divorce Risks -- 3.3.2.1 Marital Quality and Its Predictors -- 3.3.2.2 The Hypothesis of Decreasing Barriers -- 3.3.2.3 The Opportunity Hypothesis -- 3.3.2.4 The Hypothesis of the Increasing Legitimization of Separation -- 3.4 Discussion -- Appendix -- References -- Chapter 4: Divorce Trends in Seven Countries Over the Long Transition from State Socialism: 1981-2004 -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Background -- 4.3 Divorce Legislation and Trends -- 4.4 Theoretical Links Between the Transition Context and Divorce -- 4.5 Analysis -- 4.6 Results -- 4.6.1 The Risk of Divorce Over Marital Duration and Stages of the Long Transition -- 4.6.2 Event History Regression of Divorce Over the Long Transition.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (369 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783030258382
Series Statement:
European Studies of Population Series v.21
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=6114512
DDC:
306.89094
Language:
English
Note:
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