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We examine the social, economic, and cultural determinants of "repartnering" after a divorce. Our analysis improves upon earlier research in three ways: (1) our study includes more direct measures of theoretical concepts; (2) we study both marriage and cohabitation after divorce and analyze them as competing risks; (3) we incorporate information about the meeting setting in our event-history models. Competing-risk models estimated on a large-scale sample of ever-divorced persons in the Netherlands offer limited support for economic theories of marriage. Stronger support is obtained for social theories of marriage, which emphasize the role of meeting and mating opportunities in the "remarriage market," and for cultural theories of marriage, which stress the importance of individualistic orientations. Some people stay single after divorce, while others enter a new marital or cohabiting relationship. Knowing who enters a new union and who does not is important for several reasons. First, remarriage may be used as a strategy to * Earlier versions of this article were presented at Population Studies in Britain and the Netherlands, a joint conference of the British Society of Population Studies and the Netherlands Association of Demography (NVD), Utrecht, Netherlands, 2000; and at a meeting of the SISWO working group Social Inequality and the Life Course, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2000. We thank participants of these meetings as well as members of the Divorce in the Netherlands seminar for comments on earlier drafts of this research. We also thank the anonymous reviewers. The research in this article was supported by a grant from the Dutch Science Foundation NWO-ESR (510-05- 0606) and by a grant from the Board of Directors of Utrecht University. Direct correspondence

Alternative Routes in the Remarriage Market: Competing-Risk Analyses of Union Formation after Divorce