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Cohabitation among secular Jews in Israel: How ethnicity, education, and employment characteristics are related to young adults' living arrangements
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Abstract Background: Economic and ideational theories offer various explanations for the roles of ethnicity, education, and employment characteristics in determining cohabitation behavior in various contexts.
Objective: We focus on young, native-born secular Jewish adults in Israel, a subpopulation that h... view more
Background: Economic and ideational theories offer various explanations for the roles of ethnicity, education, and employment characteristics in determining cohabitation behavior in various contexts.
Objective: We focus on young, native-born secular Jewish adults in Israel, a subpopulation that has been shown to display Second Demographic Transition behaviors. Within this group we investigate whether a person’s ethnicity, education, and employment characteristics are associated with their current living arrangements.
Methods: We employ multinomial logit regression on a series of five annual data files from the Israeli Social Survey (ISS), 2005-2009. We consider the association between various explanatory variables and the odds of cohabitation vs. being married as well as the odds of cohabitation vs. being unpartnered.
Results: Higher odds of cohabiting vs. being married are significantly associated with (1) tertiary education and student status, among men and women; (2) having accumulated fewer than five years of work experience, among men; (3) working full-time, among women; and (4) European-American ethnicity and being third-generation Israeli, among women. Higher odds of cohabiting vs. being unpartnered are significantly associated with (1) tertiary education and student status, among men; and (2) working full-time, among men.
Conclusions: We suggest that in Israel a multicausal model that accounts for both economic and ideational factors is appropriate. While limited work experience among men encourages cohabitation as an alternative to marriage, as suggested by some economic theories, associations between cohabitation and educational characteristics (among men and women) as well as ethnicity (among women) are more consistent with ideational theories.... view less
Keywords
cohabitation; education; family; Israel; life situation; marriage; demographic transition; secularization; Jew; student; young adult; regression analysis
Classification
Population Studies, Sociology of Population
Family Sociology, Sociology of Sexual Behavior
Free Keywords
living arrangements; second demographic transition; Israeli Social Survey (ISS), 2005‒2009
Document language
English
Publication Year
2016
Page/Pages
p. 961-990
Journal
Demographic Research, 35 (2016)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2016.35.32
ISSN
2363-7064
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed