BACKGROUND
‘Silver splits’ – the union dissolutions after the age of 50 – have received growing attention in both the press and nonacademic discourse. Nonetheless, while there is a vast amount of research on the sociodemographic, health-related, and economic consequences of late union dissolution, no studies have yet (to the best of our knowledge) analysed the correlates of silver splits in Europe.

OBJECTIVE
This paper aims to document the correlates of union dissolution in later life in Europe, with a specific focus on the role played by grandchildren.

METHODS
We used data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and employed logistic regression to model the probability of experiencing union dissolution after the age of 50.

RESULTS
Our results show that (1) having grandchildren is related to a lower probability of experiencing a silver split, (2) the other correlates of silver splits generally do not differ from the classical correlates of union dissolution early in life, and (3) the European correlates of silver splits accord with those found in the literature for North America.



中文翻译：

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欧洲的“白银分裂”：孙辈和其他相关人员的角色（作者：Giammarco Alderotti、Cecilia Tomassini、Daniele Vignoli）

背景
“银色分裂”——工会在 50 岁之后解散——在媒体和非学术讨论中受到越来越多的关注。尽管如此，尽管有大量关于后期工会解体的社会人口、健康相关和经济后果的研究，但还没有研究（据我们所知）分析欧洲白银分裂的相关性。

目标
本文旨在记录欧洲晚年工会解体的相关性，特别关注孙辈所扮演的角色。

方法
我们使用来自欧洲健康、老龄化和退休调查 (SHARE) 的数据，并采用逻辑回归来模拟 50 岁后工会解散的概率。

结果
我们的研究结果表明（1）有孙子与经历银分裂的可能性较低有关，（2）银分裂的其他相关性通常与生命早期工会解散的经典相关性没有区别，以及（3）欧洲银裂片的相关性与北美文献中的相关性一致。