Publication details
Rozvod a změny sňatkových reprodukčních strategií
| Title in English | Divorce and changes in marital reproduction strategies |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Data a výzkum |
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| Citation | |
| Web | http://archiv.soc.cas.cz/articles/cz/4/PUBLIKACE.html#artID184 |
| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | divorce; reproduction strategies; marriage market |
| Description | Historically speaking divorce is a relatively recent phenomenon. Divorce has become more important over the last century and has undoubtedly had an impact on the social repro- duction strategies typically linked to marriage. In this paper use is made of the concept of Assortative Mating to explore if initial and subsequent marriage partner choices differ on the basis of heterogamy. This research question is formulated in terms of two contrasting hypotheses: (1) the learning and (2) the marriage market hypotheses (Gelissen 2004). These two perspectives form the basis of the theoretical framework used in the empirical ana- lyses reported. Here logistic and linear regression and log-linear modelling techniques are used. The data used to test the learning and marriage market hypotheses contains information on all of- fcially recorded marriages in the Czech Republic over a ten year period (1994-2004) gathered by the Czech Statistical Offce. The results presented reveal that divorce changes the socially repro- ductive aspects of marriage choice strategies, and these changes vary systematically on the basis of gender. Whereas frst and subsequent marriage choices are very similar for men, repeated marriage choices for women are on the whole more diverse. A number of explanations explaining this gender based difference are presented. These explanations centre on dissimilarities in the context of repeated choices for men and women. |
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