From an Alternative to a Precarious Family Form? The Changing Role of Education in Nonmarital Childbearing in Germany
This paper examines the association of education and family forms based on data of the German microcensus 1996–2012. The investigation shows that highly educated women in western Germany had a higher probability of living in a nonmarital instead of a marital union. With an increase in the share of n...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Seismo Verlag
2017-11-01
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| Series: | Swiss Journal of Sociology |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/sjs-2017-0030 |