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First child of immigrant workers and their descendants in West Germany: Interrelation of events, disruption, or adaptation?
- Source :
- Demographic Research; Jul/Dec2007, Vol. 17, p859-895, 37p, 3 Charts, 1 Graph
- Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- This paper investigates the impact of immigration on the transition to motherhood among women from Turkey, Italy, Spain, Greece, and the former Yugoslavia in West Germany. A hazard-regression analysis is applied to data of the German Socio-Economic Panel study. We distinguish between the first and second immigrant generation. The results show that the transition rates to a first birth of first-generation immigrants are elevated shortly after they move country. Elevated birth risks that occur shortly following the immigration are traced back to an interrelation of events -- these are migration, marriage, and first birth. We do not find evidence of a fertility-disruption effect after immigration. The analysis indicates that second-generation immigrants are more adapted to the lower fertility levels of West Germans than their mothers' generation is. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- EMIGRATION & immigration
IMMIGRANTS
MOTHERHOOD
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14359871
- Volume :
- 17
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Demographic Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 28743163
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2007.17.29