Irreconcilable differences? Ethnic intermarriage and divorce in the Netherlands, 1995-2008

Social Science Research

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1126-1137

  Smith, Sanne ^a   Maas, Ineke ^a   Van Tubergen, Frank ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Convergence; Divorce; Ethnicity; Homogamy; The Netherlands; Two way clustering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863100533     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.02.004     Document Type: Article

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