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The Breaking-Down of Marriage in Italy: trends and trendsetters
No full textDuring the last decades, since the mid-1970s, marriage has lost much of its centrality in Southern European Countries, such as Italy and Spain. However, the general incidence of consensual unions and marital disruption is still low compared to general European standards. Some scholars argue that the long tradition of a rigid familistic system in such countries will lay the phenomenon at very low levels. But our results reject a static picture of the Italian context and, despite persisting geographical differences, they confirm a rising breaking-down of marriage. Overall, our work places Italy at a crucial stage, in which the trends indicate a strong increase in divorce and consensual unions, and the new behaviours are no longer confined to certain trendsetters. Spain and Italy seem to be moving together in the European context. © 2013 Sociological Demography Press
Ricorso alla contraccezione in Egitto: tra scelte individuali ed eterogeneità regionali
No full textHome Tenure among the Old Europeans: a Gender Analysis
No full textDipartimento di Statistica "G. Parenti", Working Pape
Families "all'italiana": 150 Years of history
No full textIn this paper we trace in broad terms the evolution over time of definitions, data sources, conceptual frameworks and strategies of analysis that document changes in family structures and behaviours from 1861 onwards. Then we come back to trends in family patterns at beginning of the new Millennium with a wealth of interpretive tools enhanced by the historiographical sensitivity, and compare the Italian case with the other European countries.
We focus on recent data on unions formation and dissolution and show many figures which suggest a growing flexibility of unions and a rising breaking-down of the Italian marriage. We thus contribute to the discussion about the delay and specificity of the “new” family models in Italy providing a dynamic picture in a context of institutional constraints and lack of welfare aids.
Finally, we point out the critical issues in management of the different sources of data on population and family events and on the need of new appropriate data to describe and explain the growing complexity of life-courses which characterizes the contemporary Italian society
Spread-ing Uncertainty, Shrinking Birth Rates: A Natural Experiment for Italy
Full text linkMany previous studies have documented the procyclicality of fertility to business cycles or labour
market indicators in Western countries. However, part of the recent fertility decline witnessed since
the Great Recession has been left unexplained by traditional measures. The present study advances
the notion that birth postponement might have accelerated in response to rising uncertainty, which
fuelled negative expectations and declining levels of confidence about the future. To provide empirical
support for the causal effect of perceived uncertainty on birth rates, we focus on Italy’s sovereign
debt crisis of 2011–2012 as a natural experiment. Perceived uncertainty is measured using Google
trends for the term ‘spread’—which acted as somewhat of a barometer for the crisis both in the media
and everyday conversations—to capture the general public’s degree of concern about the stability of
Italian public finances. A regression discontinuity in time identifies the effect of perceived uncertainty
on birth rates in Italy as a drop between 1.5% and 5%, depending on model specification
Persistent Employment Instability and Fertility Intentions
No full textOur paper adds to the growing literature on the measurement of employment instability and its consequences on fertility dynamics. Many of these studies disregard that the persistence (duration) in an unstable condition, more than the status itself, may have the most severe consequences on subsequent family choices. In this paper, we propose an index of persistence in employment instability (EINI) that synthesizes all the information inside the individual sequence of employment statuses in a single number accounting simultaneously for the duration, sequencing, intensity, and labour market circumstances. Then, we test its impact on short-term childbearing intentions of Italian couples separately for different parities
Persistent Employment Instability and Fertility Intentions in Italy
No full textOur paper adds to the growing literature on the measurement of employment instability and on
that on its consequences on fertility dynamics. We argue that many of these studies disregard a
crucial dimension of employment instability: its persistence (duration). It is the persistence in an
unstable condition, more than the status itself, that may have the most severe consequences on
subsequent family choices. In this paper, we propose an index of persistence in employment
instability that synthesizes all the information inside the individual sequence of employment
statuses in a single number accounting simultaneously for the duration, sequencing, intensity, and
labour market circumstances. Then, we test its impact on short-term childbearing intentions, and
we do this separately for women and for men as well as for different parities. The application
focuses on the Italian case
Persistent Employment Instability and Fertility Intentions: The Gender-Specific Effect within Couples in Italy
No full textOur paper adds to the growing literature on the measurement of employment instability and on that on its consequences on fertility dynamics. We argue that many of these studies disregard a crucial dimension of employment instability: its persistence (duration). It is the persistence in an unstable condition, more than the status itself, that may have the most severe consequences on subsequent family choices. In this paper, we propose an index of persistence in employment instability that synthesizes all the information inside the individual sequence of employment statuses in a single number accounting simultaneously for the duration, sequencing, intensity, and labour market circumstances. Then, we test its impact on short-term childbearing intentions, and we do this separately for women and for men as well as for different parities. The application focuses on the Italian case
Determinants of Contraceptive Use in Egypt: A Multilevel Approach
Full text linkMultilevel models, Contextual effect, Egypt, Contraceptive use, Fertility transition,
Unprotected sex among female Italian uni- versity students: A «Calculated Risk»
No full textContraception is considered a rational strategy to prevent unwanted births. However, beyond the dichotomy of «planned» and «unplanned» pregnancy, behaviours are sometimes ambivalent or contradictory. The present paper inves tigates the reasons beyond the non-use of contraception in Italy by examining a large-scale survey of university students conducted in 2000 and 2017. The findings reveal a small but clearly defined group of young female students,
cohabiting with their partner and residing in the South of the country, who have a high frequency of sexual intercourses and do not deliberately use any contra ceptive method. These findings offer population-based evidence about the ex istence of a part of female Italian university students that, although not actively trying to have a child, are nevertheless fine to run the risk of pregnancy through unprotected sexual intercourses
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