Après avoir rappelé à grands traits les hypothèses théoriques quant au rôle que joueraient les revenus dans les choix de nuptialité, ainsi que quelques résultats empiriques portant sur le lien entre revenus d'activité et probabilité de divorcer, nous proposons une analyse empirique...

The empirical literature shows, first, that the relationship between women?s incomes and the risk of marital disruption differs from one study to the other, and second, that the European studies on this topic are very rare. Therefore, we test this relationship for ten European countries using...

This article examines the effect of earnings from labour marketon conjugal stability. Using data from luxembourg?spanels collected during the period 1980-2000, we try to measure the impact of spouses? earnings and the impact of earnings dynamics on the risk of break down (of married and...

Children do not control their socio-economic situation; they benefit or suffer from their parents' situation. In north European countries major social transfer schemes, depending on the presence of dependent children, answer to multiple objectives (birth rate support, reduced inequality in the...