Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2009
, without the rise in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the … resulting supply of spouses with diverse ethnicity and religious denominations had no overall effect on divorce rates …. Countervailing effects – in line with theoretical predictions – offset each other. The rise in the incidence in divorce is most …