Repartnering and (Re)employment: Strategies to cope with the economic consequences of partnership dissolution

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1271-1293

  Jansen, Mieke ^a   Mortelmans, Dimitri ^b   Snoeckx, Laurent ^b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Economic issues; Family policy; Growth curve analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 71149087467     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2009.00668.x     Document Type: Article

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