TY  - JOUR
A1  - Katus, Kalev
A1  - Puur, Allan
A1  - Põldma, Asta
A1  - Sakkeus, Luule
T1  - First union formation in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania: patterns across countries and gender
Y1  - 2007/11/16
JF  - Demographic Research
JO  - Demographic Research
SN  - 1435-9871
SP  - 247
EP  - 300
DO  - 10.4054/DemRes.2007.17.10
VL  - 17
IS  - 10
UR  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol17/10/
L1  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol17/10/17-10.pdf
L2  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol17/10/17-10.pdf
N2  - This article examines the transformation of first union formation in the Baltic countries between the late 1960s and early 1990s, in the context of societal and family-level gender relations. The analyses employ microdata from the European Family and Fertility Surveys program. Our results on the trends indicate that in Estonia and Latvia the shift from direct marriage to cohabitation started well before the fall of socialist regime. Event-history models provide support for a hypothesised association between union formation and gender system, with Lithuania showing more traditional features in both respect, plausibly embedded in long-standing cultural differences between the countries.

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