It is a groundswell that has shaken almost the whole of Europe:
“for several decades, most European countries have experienced high levels of divorce and separation.
This period was also marked by fluctuations in unemployment rates, which remain high in some countries.
Is there a link between unemployment and unstable couples?
Asked several researchers from European institutes (INED, the National Institute of Demographic Studies for France).
And their conclusions, published by the
Journal of Family Research,
do not leave a shadow of a doubt: in the five countries studied (Germany, Belgium, Finland, France and Italy), periods of unemployment are synonymous with a surge in divorces. .
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In France, a man “
in employment
” has a risk of separation of 2.6% and 3.8% when he is unemployed (ie half as much).
For a French woman, the probabilities are respectively 2.6% and 3.6%.
The same phenomenon is observed in Germany where the rates of
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