Economic circumstances and union dissolution of couples in the 1990s in the Netherlands

Dorien Manting & Anneke LoeveRevised version of a paper presented at the workshop of the European Research Network on Divorce Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands, November 13-15, 2003.This working paper investigates the role of economic determinants in the dissolution of recently formed marital and non-marital unions in the Netherlands. The economic determinants studied are women's and men's personal income, women's and men's socio-economic position and the contribution of women's income in the total household income. The discrete-time event history analyses cover the dissolution of cohabiting and married unions formed between 1989 and 1999. Longitudinal data from Statistics Netherlands' Income Panel Survey 1989-2000 are used.