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Unemployment and the Separation of Married Couples
Author(s) -
Kraft Kornelius
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
kyklos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1467-6435
pISSN - 0023-5962
DOI - 10.1111/1467-6435.00141
Subject(s) - unemployment , separation (statistics) , economics , logit , probit model , probit , econometrics , ordered probit , marital status , panel data , demographic economics , statistics , demography , mathematics , sociology , economic growth , population
This article analyzes whether unemployment has an effect on the splitting of a marital relationship. The study uses 40 000 observations on unemployment spells and marital status during the period from 1987 to 1996. Random effects probit and conditional likelihood logit models for panel data are applied. Using several control variables, it was confirmed that unemployment does actually lead to a higher probability of the separation of married couples.