It looks as though declining rates of marriage and increa...

It looks as though declining rates of marriage and increasing rates of cohabitation among the American working class are not���whatever hordes of American Enterprise Institute funders are eager to pay people to say���in any sense "sociological breakdown", but rather economic precarity:

Daniel Schneider, Kristen Harknett, and Matthew Stimpson: Job Quality and the Educational Gradient in Entry into Marriage and Cohabitation: "Men���s and women���s economic resources are important determinants of marriage timing.... Declining job quality and rising precarity in employment and suggests that this transformation may matter for the life course...

...The 1980-1984 U.S. birth cohort from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth.... Men and women in less precarious jobs���jobs with standard work schedules and jobs that provide fringe benefits���are more likely to marry. Further, differences in job quality explain a significant portion of the educational gradient in entry into first marriage. However, these dimensions of job quality are not predictive of cohabitation...

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