Division Of Labour And Divorce Rate:An Economic Explanation Of The Chinese High Divorce Rates In The Transformation Period

With the deepening development of industrialization and modernization in transitional stage,one of the most important modifications in family relationship is that the problem of divorce becomes more and more serious and the divorce rate is rapidly increasing.In modern times,the relationship of marriage has been from the Stone Age which is rough but steady to the Porcelain Age which is exquisite but fragile.From the reform and opening up on,the divorce phenomena have changed in deep degree in our country with the development of economic society.Especially in recent years,the divorce phenomena of China have become more and more severe and this problem has been attracted much attention.On the one hand,the high divorce rate has very bad effect on the whole society,such as the fracture of the core of family,the psychological trauma of them,children's growing,crime and so on.On the other hand,it is also a Pareto improvement for the low quality of marriage contract forming in the period of tradition.Based on this background,this paper researches the influence mechanism between division of labour and marriage decision through the view of theoretical and positive in the perspective of social of division of labour,and thus it can give an economic explanation for the phenomenon of high divorce rate in the process of transformation.Firstly,it analyzes the mechanism between division of labour and divorce in theoretical view,and then analyzes the influence by introducing three big effects,which are income effect,trade effect and indirect effect.This paper further chooses seven factors as the criterion to measure the level of social division of labour and then use the panel data model to analyze the influence of social division of labour on divorce decision,and revalidate the conclusion by using the datum of the cities,towns and countries in China.There are two main points in this paper.Frist,the influence mechanism of social division of labour no marriage decision is by the three big effects of social division according to the second chapter analysis.The mechanism is that indirect effect is paly the fundamental role,income effect is supreme and most positive,and trade effect is the direct conditions.The three big effects are indispensable and mutual effect to improve the social divorce rate.On the other hand,for the both parts of marriage,the influence mechanism is different.For women part,the development of social division of labour provides jobs for women which are surplus of labor in family system,and thus it can increase these incomes and enhance their independence of economy and subsistence to get rid of dependence of men.So this mechanism impacts the marriage's stability.And for the men part,there are two points with the development of division of labour.On the one hand,some men can gain the monopoly position in the labor market.On the other hand,some men can lose the jobs.So the former's revenue can increased significantly and reduce the marriage constraint and easy form a view of marriage of dudish.The latter can make the wife lose the confidence of her husband.The result of these is impact the stability of marriage and then increase the divorce rate.There does not exist the phenomenon of completely divorce,for the participation constraint.The divorce rate and remarriage rate will be simultaneously increased because of the incentive mechanism.Second,there are two parts of positive analysis which are the overall effect and the local effect.Firstly,this paper demonstrates the positive affections on the divorce rate.Using the panel dates from 1999 to 2013 year,the result shows that the seven variables of social division of labour have positive affections on the divorce rate.The comprehensive effection of each index is bigger than zero,that is,in general social division of labour has positive influence of divorce rate.Than using subsample dates from 2003 to 2013,it finds that the comprehensive coefficient improves forty percent without the laws constraint.Through the comparison between the regions of the eastern area,central area,west area and midwest,it find that the social division of labour can explain the gap of divorce rate in China in some degree.Otherwise,the threshold effect test shows that the higher the level of social division of labour to the influence degree of the divorce rate is higher.Secondly,this paper demonstrates the influence mechanism of three big effects.Through respective panel regression test,it finds that these three effects are significantly but differently,which the effect of income is supreme and most positive,trade effect is moderate and positive,and indirect effect is minimum and positive.Using the datum of cities,towns and countries,it also found that with the evolution of the division of labour in the process of transformation,the divorce rate is increased for pursuing the high quality of marriage to get rid of the low quality of marriage.Finally,this paper puts forward three recommendations to decline the rapidly increasing divorce rate in China.The first one is institution arrangement especially inform institution,such as moral propaganda,moral education,accommodation of community,and so on.The second one is to solve the problem information asymmetry or incomplete information,for example,we can set up information platform in community.Last,release of population policy is another important measure to reduce divorce rate.Because it can be make the sex ratio reasonable,and enhance the reasonableness of marriage match.