Levels of recent union formation

Jan M. Hoem, Anna Matysiak, Giuseppe Gabrielli, Aiva Jasilioniene and Dora Kostova
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Jan M. Hoem: Stockholms Universitet
Giuseppe Gabrielli: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Aiva Jasilioniene: Max-Planck-Institut für Demografische Forschung
Dora Kostova: Max-Planck-Institut für Demografische Forschung

Demographic Research, 2010, vol. 22, issue 9, 199-210

Abstract: We offer a comparison between the age profiles of risks of formation of marital and non-marital unions in Russia, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Italy. We show that there is considerable variability across these populations in the level and age pattern of union-entry risks, ranging (i) from the high and early risks in Russia to the slow and late entries in Italy, and (ii) from an emphasis on marriage in Russia, Poland, Italy, and particularly Romania, to the dominant role of cohabitation reported for Bulgaria. Some of this mostly re-iterates known features (like the patterns for Italy), but they are displayed with unusual clarity in the comparative framework, which also highlights unusual patterns like those for Bulgaria. We cannot see much commonality in union-entry risks among ex-communist countries.

Keywords: Italy; marital status; Poland; Russia; Bulgaria; Hungary; union formation; nonmarriage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2010.22.9

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