Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Parental age gaps among immigrants and their descendants: Adaptation across time and generations?
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1639-3307
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology. London School of Economics, London, UK.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4274-617X
Number of Authors: 22023 (English)In: Population Studies, ISSN 0032-4728, E-ISSN 1477-4747, Vol. 77, no 2, p. 311-333Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Age gaps between partners have undergone dramatic changes in high-income countries over the past century. Yet, there has been little focus on age gaps for immigrants and their descendants. This is an important omission because age gaps can be interpreted as a macro-level indicator of intergenerational adaptation. We examine the age gaps of biological parents (childbearing partners) among immigrants and their descendants in Sweden, a country with high gender equality and a stable mean age gap. Using longitudinal, whole-population data, we examine changes in age gaps for cohorts born 1950-86. Cohort trends in age gaps often follow very different patterns for male and female immigrants, with limited evidence of adaptation across cohorts. However, there is considerable evidence of adaptation towards the Swedish norm among the second generation, including from direct comparison between immigrants and their children. The largest differences between women and men are seen among the first generation with a Swedish-born partner.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2023. Vol. 77, no 2, p. 311-333
Keywords [en]
age difference, partnership, adaptation, immigrants, descendants of immigrants, intermarriage, binational partnership
National Category
Sociology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-200428DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2021.1998583ISI: 000733677400001PubMedID: 34939527Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85121838136OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-200428DiVA, id: diva2:1624882
Available from: 2022-01-05 Created: 2022-01-05 Last updated: 2023-08-10Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full textPubMedScopus

Authority records

Uggla, CarolineWilson, Ben

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Uggla, CarolineWilson, Ben
By organisation
Department of Sociology
In the same journal
Population Studies
Sociology

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
pubmed
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
pubmed
urn-nbn
Total: 197 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf