Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/210978 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 917
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
Using Norwegian register data on all individuals born 1985 to 2000 who were either native-born or who immigrated as children or teens (N=1,013,734), the current study investigated timing of first co-residential union and choice of union type in the period 2005 through 2018. Descriptive results showed that 64% of the second generation (Norwegian-born children of immigrants) and 75% of the 1.5 generation (immigrated prior to age 18) chose cohabitation as first union, compared with 94% of those without a migration background. Results from competing risk event history models confirmed that second-generation immigrants, and particularly women, were more likely to marry directly and less likely to cohabit than those belonging to the 1.5 generation and Norwegians without a migration background. Second-generation individuals originating from Turkey, Pakistan, Morocco, Kosovo, Sri-Lanka, and India were more prone to marry directly than the native-born children of immigrants from other non-Western countries. Conversely, second-generation Iranians were less likely to marry, whereas those originating from Vietnam and Bosnia and Herzegovina were most likely to cohabit. The chance of marrying directly decreased across the study period among immigrant-background and majority individuals alike.
Subjects: 
First union formation
Cohabitation
Marriage
The Second generation
Immigrants
Norway
JEL: 
J10
J12
J15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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