TY - JOUR A1 - Kreyenfeld, Michaela A1 - Geisler, Esther A1 - Castro Martín, Teresa A1 - Hannemann, Tina A1 - Heintz-Martin, Valerie A1 - Jalovaara, Marika A1 - Kulu, Hill A1 - Meggiolaro, Silvia A1 - Mortelmans, Dimitri A1 - Pasteels, Inge A1 - Seiz, Marta A1 - Solaz, Anne T1 - Social policies, separation, and second birth spacing in Western Europe JF - Demographic Research N2 - OBJECTIVE This paper studies postseparation fertility behavior. The aim is to investigate whether,and if so how, separation affects second birth spacing in Western European countries. METHODS This analysis makes use of rich survey data from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy,Spain, and the United Kingdom, as well as from Finnish register data. We thus cover the behavior of a large proportion of the population of Western Europe. We also use descriptive measures, such as Kaplan‒Meier survival functions and cumulative incidence curves. In the multivariate analysis, we employ event history modeling to show how education relates to postseparation fertility behavior. Y1 - 2017 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-24944 UR - https://www.demographic-research.org/Volumes/Vol37/37/ U6 - https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2017.37.37 VL - 37 SP - 1245 EP - 1274 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Solaz, Anne A1 - Jalovaara, Marika A1 - Kreyenfeld, Michaela A1 - Meggiolaro, Silvia A1 - Mortelmans, Dimitri A1 - Pasteels, Inge T1 - Unemployment and separation: Evidence from five European countries JF - Journal of Family Research N2 - Since the 1970s, several European countries have experienced high union dissolution risk as well as high unemployment rates. The extent to which adverse economic conditions are associated with union instability is still unknown. This study explores the relationship between both individual and aggregate unemployment and union dissolution risk in five European countries before the recent economic crisis. Using rich longitudinal data from Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, and Italy, the empirical analysis, based on discrete-time event history models, shows that male unemployment consistently increases the risk of union dissolution. While a strong association is observed between male unemployment and separation at the micro level, no association is found between male unemployment and union dissolution at the macro level. The results for female unemployment are mixed, and the size of the impact of female unemployment is smaller in magnitude than that of male unemployment. In Germany and Italy, where until very recently work has been less compatible with family life than in other countries, female unemployment is not significantly associated with union dissolution. KW - unemployment, divorce, separation, contextual effect, gender, couple, crisis Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.20377/jfr-368 VL - 32 IS - 1 SP - 145 EP - 176 ER -