Research seminar Divorce and Inequality Add to calendar 2021-11-15 15:00 2021-11-15 16:15 Europe/Rome Divorce and Inequality Refectory/Zoom YYYY-MM-DD Print Share: Share on Facebook Share on BlueSky Share on X Share on LinkedIn Send by email Scheduled dates Nov 15 2021 15:00 - 16:15 CET Refectory/Zoom Organised by Department of Economics Department of History Department of Law Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Department of Political and Social Sciences Florence School of Transnational Governance Inequality, Welfare and Social Justice In this research seminar, Peter Fallesen highlights key conceptual and methodological spectres that haunt the study of divorce and suggest possible avenues for future research that may help to address these concerns. At the individual level, divorces are life-altering events and cause individuals to face new economic, social, and emotional challenges. At the same time, divorces, and union dissolutions more generally, are complex social phenomena that play out over extended periods, includes multiple distinct actors, and often are governed by complex legal categorisations.Fallesen draws upon international research and several completed and ongoing quantitative research projects to trace the link between divorce and inequality in Europe and elsewhere across three interlinked dimensions: formal and informal inequality in access to divorce, socioeconomic inequality in divorce risk, and socioeconomic inequality as a consequence of divorce.