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Divorce trends in seven countries over the long transition from state socialism 1981-2004
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posted on 2020-02-11, 13:28 authored by Juho Härkönen, Sunnee BillingsleySunnee Billingsley, Maria HornungThe collapse of communism was a defining
geopolitical event of late-20th century Europe, with well-documented
economic, social, and political implications. Yet there is a striking absence
of research on how it influenced divorce. The objective of this study is to
provide an exploratory analysis of trends in divorce over the long transition
from communism—starting from the decline of the communist economy in the 1980s
and ending with economic revival—in seven countries: Bulgaria, Estonia,
Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Russia. We discuss how the transition
could be expected to either increase or decrease divorce risks. We analyze
retrospective micro-level data on first marriages from the Changing Life Course
Regimes in Eastern Europe (CLiCR) dataset. Based on our event-history analyses,
we find that divorce rates increased in each country at some stage during the
long transition and these increases cannot be explained by compositional change
of the marriages. However, no uniform pattern emerged in the timing and
duration of the increase in divorce risk. This striking variation leads us to
conclude that even the effect of major societal ruptures is contextually
contingent.
Funding
the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) via the Linnaeus Center for Social Policy and Family Dynamics in Europe (SPaDE), grant registration number 349-2007-8701
the Stockholm Centre on Health of Societies in Transition (SCOHOST) at Södertörn University
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ISSN
2002-617XOriginal title
Divorce trends in seven countries over the long transition from state socialism 1981-2004Original language
- English
Publication date
2020-02-11Associated Publication
ärkönen J., Billingsley S., Hornung M. (2020) Divorce Trends in Seven Countries Over the Long Transition from State Socialism: 1981–2004. In: Mortelmans D. (eds) Divorce in Europe. European Studies of Population, vol 21. Springer, Cham https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25838-2_4Usage metrics
Keywords
DivorceCentral and Eastern Europesocial changetransition from communismevent history analysisStockholm Reports in DemographySociologiska institutionenDepartment of SociologySUDAStockholm University Demography UnitStockholms universitets demografiska avdelningDemography not elsewhere classifiedSociology
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