Sweden than in Germany, in particular for cohabitation. …

Childbearing within cohabitation has gained considerable ground in recent decades, but existing explanations for this … cohabitation being related to a “pattern of disadvantage” as they are often concentrated among individuals faced with blocked …

intensity models for the transition to (i) cohabitation as first relationship and (ii) direct marriage of women in Italy …Over the last two decades, Europe has witnessed the spreading of a new phenomenon: cohabitation. Whereas this modern … diffusion of cohabitation. Researchers so far have assumed that traditionally strong family ties between parents and their adult …

situation, in which most young adults are unable to choose cohabitation. Thus, not surprisingly, previous studies found evidence … that in Italy cohabitation was only a choice for people who were economically independent. Also of interest is that the … percentage of informal unions varies to a considerable extent across Italy, showing higher proportions of cohabitation in the …

consistent with the crucial role that family ties play in the choice of cohabitation in place of (or before) marriage. …Cohabitation has been spreading in the population during the last thirty years, and this is one of the most striking … cohabitation experiences with the Italian cultural context. Using an individual-level diffusion approach we obtain results that are …

“institution” of marriage, as well as the increasing “institutionalization” of cohabitation. …Although cohabitation and childbearing within cohabitation has increased dramatically in Europe over the past decades … state policies may be facilitating cohabitation or, alternatively, stalling the increase of cohabitation by privileging …

cohabitation and as single mothers, primarily due to a lower probability of legitimating a nonmarital conception. Based on these …

cohabitation has begun to be interpreted as a testing period leading to marriage, attitudes towards it are still very ambiguous … attitudes associated to non-marital cohabitation by a selected sample of young Poles. Results indicate that although … cohabitation rate in Poland enable us to advance grounded hypotheses on its evolution in the near future and, more generally, to …