Things change: Women’s and men’s marital disruption dynamics in Italy during a time of social transformations, 1970-2003

Silvana Salvini and Daniele Vignoli ()
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Silvana Salvini: Università degli Studi di Firenze

Demographic Research, 2011, vol. 24, issue 5, 145-174

Abstract: We study women’s and men’s marital disruption in Italy between 1970 and 2003. By applying an event-history analysis to the 2003 Italian variant of the Generations and Gender Survey we found that the spread of marital disruption started among middle-highly educated women. Then in recent years it appears that less educated women have also been able to dissolve their unhappy unions. Overall we can see the beginning of a reversed educational gradient from positive to negative. In contrast the trend in men’s marital disruption risk appears as a change over time common to all educational groups, although with persisting educational differentials.

Keywords: event history analysis; Italy; marital disruption; gender differences; determinants; educational differences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2011.24.5

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