The structure of recent first-union formation in Romania

Jan M. Hoem, Dora Kostova, Aiva Jasilioniene and Cornelia Mureşan
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Jan M. Hoem: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
Dora Kostova: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
Aiva Jasilioniene: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
Cornelia Mureşan: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

No WP-2009-002, MPIDR Working Papers from Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

Abstract: By European standards, consensual first unions have been rare in Romania, and they remain so even though their incidence has increased by a factor of almost five since the early 1960s. Rates of conversion of consensual unions into marriages have been cut in half over the same four decades or so, and marriage rates have declined by a similar factor since the fall of state socialism, which is more dramatic because this period is so much shorter. There have been strong ethnic differentials in union-entry rates in the country.

Keywords: Romania (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2009-002

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