Assortative mating and divorce: evidence from Austrian register data

Arbeitspapier

This paper documents that changes in assortative mating patterns over the last four decades along the dimensions of age, ethnicity and religion are not responsible for the increasing marital stability in Austria. Quite the contrary, without the rise in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the resulting supply of spouses with diverse ethnicity and religious denominations had no overall effect on divorce rates. Countervailing effects - in line with theoretical predictions - offset each other. The rise in the incidence in divorce is most probably caused by changing social norms.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4446

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse ; Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; Cultural Economics: Religion
• Thema: Assortative mating ; divorce ; marital instability ; immigration ; Ehe ; Scheidung ; Familienökonomik ; Einwanderung ; Soziale Werte ; Österreich

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Frimmel, Wolfgang ; Halla, Martin ; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2009

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/36249
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-200910141252
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ