Female Migration and Native Marital Stability: Insights from Italy

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• 作者：Daniele Vignoli ; Elena Pirani…
• 关键词：Migration ; Divorce ; Marriage market ; Italy
• 刊名：Journal of Family and Economic Issues
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：38
• 期：1
• 页码：118-128
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• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Sociology, general; Social Sciences, general; Personality and Social Psychology; Social Policy;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-3475
• 卷排序：38

文摘

Previous research has noted that divorce rates tend to be higher when there is a surplus of marriageable women in the marriage market. This paper argues that the size and the composition of the female migrant population can affect the marital stability of natives. We tested such hypothesis taking Italy as a case-study because it exemplifies a male-breadwinner society and because it is a relatively new immigration country. We estimated discrete-time event history models predicting marital disruption on data from the nationally representative 2009 Family and Social Subjects survey. Our results illustrated that the increasing presence of first mover migrant women (coming from Central-South America and Eastern Europe) was associated with higher separation risks among natives, especially for couples with lower human capital. By advancing the relevance of foreigners as a potential driver of natives’ family life courses, our findings add to our understanding of partnership dynamics in recent immigration countries.