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- Title
Family Composition and Remarriage in Pre-Transitional Italy: A Comparative Study.
- Authors
Breschi, Marco; Fornasin, Alessio; Manfredini, Matteo; Zacchigna, Marianna
- Abstract
It is well known that timing and intensity of remarriage were strictly dependent upon demographic, socio-economic, cultural and legislative factors specific to each community. Thus, the aim of this paper is to compare the extent to which such factors may affect the remarriage patterns of three pre-transitional Italian populations that were different in many respects. By using micro-level data of the sharecropping communities of Casalguidi and Madregolo and the Alpine village of Treppo Carnico, we highlighted similarities and differences in the respective remarriage patterns, in particular, the far lower intensity in the mountain community with respect to the sharecropping ones. Our findings show that along with differences in the demographic system, household structure and land tenure, normative elements concerning widows and the dotal system could in part explain the differentials we found.
- Subjects
ITALY; REMARRIAGE; SHARECROPPING; DEMOGRAPHY; MORTALITY; STATISTICS; MARITAL status
- Publication
European Journal of Population, 2009, Vol 25, Issue 3, p277
- ISSN
0168-6577
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10680-008-9172-8