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Title: | Divorce and the business cycle: a cross-country analysis |
Author: | González-Val, Rafael Marcén, Miriam |
Keywords: | Divorci Atur Cicles econòmics Divorce Unemployment Business cycles |
Issue Date: | 2015 |
Publisher: | Institut d’Economia de Barcelona |
Abstract: | In this paper, we examine the role of the business cycle in divorce. To do so, we use a panel of 29 European countries covering the period from 1991 to 2012. We find the unemployment rate negatively affects the divorce rate, pointing to a pro-cyclical evolution of the divorce rate, even after controlling for socio-economic variables and unobservable characteristics that can vary by country, and/or over time. Results indicate that a onepercentage-point increase in the unemployment rate involves almost 0.025 fewer divorces per thousand inhabitants. The impact is small, representing around 1.2% of the average divorce rate in Europe during the period considered. Supplementary analysis, developed to explore a possible non-linear pattern, confirms a negative relationship between unemployment and divorce in European countries, with the inverse relationship being more pronounced in those countries with higher divorce rates. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://www.ieb.ub.edu/2012022157/ieb/ultimes-publicacions |
It is part of: | IEB Working Paper 2015/34 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/115463 |
Appears in Collections: | IEB (Institut d’Economia de Barcelona) – Working Papers |
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