Structural Determinants of the Divorce Rate: A Cross-Societal Analysis

Divorce in contemporary Japan

“…Emigration leads to relative scarcity and greater demand for females in a given prefecture, and so the reduction of divorce, as also Trent & South (1989) and South (1985South ( , 1988 found in their American samples. As regards the direct effect of female immigration, the coefficient is positive but is not statistically significant.…”

Divorce and remarriage: effects on the elderly population

“…Although there are a wide variety of marital relationship patterns around the world, marital stability seems to result from focused cooperation by the marital pair in production and reproduction, in which both of the spouses have some rights in the children. Factors that reduce women's economic dependency 8 and men's investment in their children (e.g. matrilineal inheritance 9 ) increase the level of divorce.…”

Les unions mixtes sont-elles plus fragiles que les unions entre partenaires de même origine ethnique? Nouveaux résultats pour la Grande-Bretagne

“…There has been a significant rise in the rates of union dissolution in western countries in the post-war period; in Britain the crude divorce rate increased more than 6 fold from 2 per 1000 in 1960 to about 13 per 1000 marriages in 2000 (Chan and Halpin 2003). This trend has largely been attributed to the increase in the economic independence of women, changes in public attitudes toward divorce, and the liberalisation of marriage legislation (Becker 1981;Kierman and Meuller 1999;Thornton 1989;Trent and South 1989). Certain factors, such as getting married at a young age and premarital birth, are positively associated with dissolution, while higher income couples and those with higher qualifications have a lower risk of divorce (Chan and Halpin 2003;Kierian and Meuller 1999;Teachman 2002).…”