%0 Report
        %A Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise
%A Bonke, Jens
        %T Integration of Ethnic Minorities: Do They Divorce as Natives Do?
        %D 2016
        %8 2016 Feb
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 9727
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9727
        %X We investigate the divorce patterns among non-Western immigrants and natives in Denmark. We focus on marriages entered on or after arrival to Denmark and analyze whether inter-ethnic marriages result in higher divorce rates and whether divorce behavior differs between first- and second-generation immigrants and native couples. We show that inter-ethnic couples (one native, one immigrant) in general are more likely to divorce than native couples (two natives), while co-ethnic couples (two immigrants) are less likely to divorce, when controlling for differences in socioeconomic characteristics. In particular, co-ethnic couples composed of a first- and second-generation immigrant are less likely to divorce, while the divorce probability is the highest among inter-ethnic couples composed of a native woman and a first-generation immigrant man. The analyses are based on register information from Statistics Denmark for the years 1990–2014.
        %K inter‐ and co‐ethnic marriage and divorce