Volume 35 - Article 50 | Pages 1489–1522  

Impact of conjugal separation on women’s income in Canada: Does the type of union matter?

By Céline Le Bourdais, Sung-Hee Jeon, Shelley Clark, Évelyne Lapierre-Adamcyk

References

Allison, P. (2009). Fixed effects regression models. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Avellar, S. and Smock, P.J. (2005). The economic consequences of the dissolution of cohabiting unions. Journal of Marriage and Family 67(2): 315−327.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Bumpass, L.L. and Lu, H.H. (2000). Trends in cohabitation and implications for children’s family contexts in the United States. Population Studies 54(1): 29−41.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Cherlin, A. (2004). The deinstitutionalization of American marriage. Journal of Marriage and Family 66(4): 848−861.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Comité consultatif, sur le droit de la famille (2015). Pour un droit de la famille adapté aux nouvelles réalités conjugales et familiales. Montréal: Éditions Thémis.

Download reference:

de Regt, S., Mortelmans, D., and Marynissen, T. (2013). Financial consequences of relationship dissolution: A longitudinal comparison of formerly married and unmarried cohabiting men and women. Sociology 47(1): 90−108.

Weblink:
Download reference:

de Vaus, D., Gray, M., Qu, L., and Stanton, D. (2010). The effect of relationship breakdown on income and social exclusion. In: Saunders, P., Sainsbury, R., and Kemp, P.A. (eds.). Social security, poverty and social exclusions in rich and poorer countries. Antwerp: Intersentia Uitgevers: 265−288.

Download reference:

Duncan, G.J. and Hoffman, S.D. (1985). A reconsideration of the economic consequences of marital dissolution. Demography 22(4): 485−497.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Esping-Anderson, G. (1990). The three worlds of welfare capitalism. Oxford: Polity Press.

Download reference:

Ferrera, M. (1996). The ‘Southern model’ of welfare in social Europe. Journal of European Social Policy 6(1): 17−37.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Finnie, R. (1993). Women, men, and the economic consequences of divorce: Evidence from Canadian longitudinal data. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 30(2): 205−241.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Fisher, H. and Low, L. (2015). Financial implications of relationship breakdown: Does marriage matter? Review of Economics of the Household 13(4): 735−769.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Frenette, M., Green, D.A., and Picot, G. (2006). Rising income inequality in the 1990s: An exploration of three data sources. In: Green, D. and Kesselman, J.R. (eds.). Dimensions of inequality in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press: 65−100.

Download reference:

Gadalla, T.M. (2009). Impact of marital dissolution on men's and women's incomes: A longitudinal study. Journal of Divorce & Remarriage 50(1): 55−65.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Galarneau, D. and Sturrock, J. (1997). Family income after separation. Perspectives (Summer): 18−28.

Download reference:

Girard, C. (2012). Le bilan démographique du Québec. Édition 2012. Québec: Institut de la statistique du Québec.

Download reference:

Hamplová, D., Le Bourdais, C., and Lapierre-Adamcyk, É. (2014). Is the cohabitation-marriage gap in money pooling universal? Journal of Marriage and Family 76(5): 983−997.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Heuveline, P. and Timberlake, J.M. (2004). The role of cohabitation in family formation: The United States in comparative perspective. Journal of Marriage and Family 66(5): 1214−1230.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Hoffman, S.D. and Duncan, G.J. (1988). What are the economic consequences of divorce? Demography 25(4): 641−645.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Institut de la statistique, du Québec (ed.) (2011). Le bilan démographique du Québec. Édition 2011. Québec: Institut de la statistique du Québec.

Download reference:

Jarvis, S. and Jenkins, S.P. (1999). Marital splits and income changes: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey. Population Studies 53(2): 237−254.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Kiernan, K. (2002). Cohabitation in Western Europe: Trends, issues and implications. In: Booth, A. and Crouter, A.C. (eds.). Just living together: Implications of cohabitation on families, children, and social policy. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: 3−31.

Download reference:

Lapierre-Adamcyk, É. and Le Bourdais, C. (2008). La diversification de la structure et de la composition des familles au Canada. Ottawa: Department of Human Resources and Social Development Canada.

Download reference:

Laplante, B. and Fostik, A. (Forthcoming). Cohabitation and marriage in Canada. The geography, law and politics of competing views on gender equality. In: Lesthaeghe, R. and Esteve, A. (eds.). Partnership formation in the Americas: Geo-historical legacies and new trends. Springer.

Download reference:

LaRochelle-Côté, S., Myles, J., and Picot, G. (2012). Income replacement rates among Canadian seniors: The effect of widowhood and divorce. Ottawa: Statistics Canada, Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series.

Download reference:

Le Bourdais, C. and Juby, H. (2002). The impact of cohabitation on the family life course in contemporary North America: Insights from across the border. In: Booth, A. and Crouter, A.C. (eds.). Just living together: Implications of cohabitation on families, children, and social policy. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: 107−118.

Download reference:

Le Bourdais, C. and Lapierre-Adamcyk, É. (2004). Changes in conjugal life in Canada – Is cohabitation progressively replacing marriage? Journal of Marriage and Family 66(4): 929−942.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Le Bourdais, C., Lapierre-Adamcyk, É., and Roy, A. (2014). Instabilité des unions libres: Une analyse comparative des facteurs démographiques. Recherches sociographiques 55(1): 53−78.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Liefbroer, A.C. and Dourleijn, E. (2006). Unmarried cohabitation and union stability: Testing the role of diffusion using data from 16 European countries. Demography 48(2): 203−221.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Manting, D. and Bouman, A.M. (2006). Short-and long-term economic consequences of the dissolution of marital and consensual unions. The example of the Netherlands. European Sociological Review 22(4): 413−429.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Marcil-Gratton, N. and Le Bourdais, C. (1999). Custody, access and child support: Findings from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth. Ottawa: Department of Justice Canada, Research Report CSR-1999-3E submitted to the Child Support Team.

Download reference:

Proulx, C., Faustmann, S., Raïq, H., and van den Berg, A. (2011). Internal diversity in social policy regimes: The case of Canada’s four major provinces. In: Fréchet, G., Gauveau, D., and Poirier, J. (eds.). Statistiques sociales, pauvreté et exclusion sociale – perspectives québécoises, canadiennes et internationales. Montréal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal: 176−189.

Download reference:

Radenacker, A. (2011). Economic consequences of family break-ups. Income before and after family break-ups of women in Germany and the United States. Schmollers Jahrbuchces (Journal of Applied Social Science Studies) 131(2): 225−234.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Roy, A. (2011). L'évolution de la politique législative de l'union de fait au Québec. In: Martial, A. and Belleau, H. (eds.). Aimer et compter. Droits et pratiques des solidarités conjugales dans les nouvelles trajectoires familiales. Québec: Presses de l’Université du Québec: 113−141.

Download reference:

Sinha, M. (2014). Parenting and child support after separation or divorce. Ottawa: Statistics Canada (Analytical paper – Spotlight on Canadians: Results from the General Social Survey (Cat. no. 89-652-X – No. 001)).

Download reference:

Sobotka, T. and Toulemon, L. (2008). Changing family and partnership behaviour: Common trends and persistent diversity across Europe. Demographic Research 19(6): 85−138.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Statistics, Canada (2012b). 2011 Census of Canada. Topic-based tabulations: Age Group of Child (13), Census Family Structure (7) and Sex (3) for the Children in Census Families in Private Households of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2006 and 2011 Censuses.

Statistics, Canada (2014). Longitudinal Administrative Data Dictionary 2012. Ottawa: Statistics Canada.

Download reference:

Statistics, Canada (2012a). Portrait of families and living arrangements in Canada. Ottawa: Statistics Canada.

Download reference:

Supreme Court, of Canada (1995). Thibaudeau v. Canada. 2 SCR 627 Case number 24154.

Download reference:

Tach, L.M. and Eads, A. (2015). Trends in the economic consequences of marital and cohabitation dissolution in the United States. Demography 52(2): 401−432.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Uunk, W. (2004). The economic consequences of divorce for women in the European Union: The impact of welfare state arrangements. European Journal of Population 20(3): 251−285.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Weitzman, L.J. (1985). The divorce revolution: The unexpected social and economic consequences for women and children in America. New York: The Free Press.

Download reference:

Wu, Z. (2000). Cohabitation: An alternative form of family living. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Download reference:

Back to the article