This paper explores studies concerning the effect of marriage on happiness and reports the followings. Those who marry are happier than those who don ft. There exists bilateral causality between marriage and happiness. Happiness rises with marriage, but thereafter begins to decline shortly. Whether the adaptation is perfect or not is still undetermined. Why people get married? What kind of couple get ...
This doctoral thesis analyses the modes of participating of young people of migrant origin, in particular those of North-African origin and of Turkish origin in today's France and Germany respectively. Especially, it deals with their educational achievements, their transition into the labour market and their forms of belonging (citizenship and elective participation). The results from French and ...
How do social inequalities and changes in those inequalities fit with the ways that descendants of immigrants participate in their given national frameworks at the historical, cultural, institutional and structural levels ? Analysis of two major surveys (France's "Study of family history" [Etude de l'histoire familiale] and Germany's "Socio-economic panel" [SOEP]) ...