Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/180663 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 229
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Maastricht
Abstract: 
This paper studies the effect of the business cycle on the marriage rate, using a panel data of 30 European countries covering 1991 to 2013. We find a negative effect of the business cycle on the marriage rate, pointing to the pro-cyclical behaviour of marriage decisions, which holds after controlling for country-level specific characteristics and family law, and after taking possible endogeneity problems into account. We also analyse this issue considering a wide range of country-level regulations affecting couples (taxation, property division, and reproduction, among others). Supplemental analysis reveals gender differences in the impact of the business cycle on the marital decision, depending on the previous legal marital status of the individuals.
Subjects: 
Marriage
unemployment
business cycle
JEL: 
J12
J64
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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