First child of immigrant workers and their descendants in West Germany Interrelation of events, disruption, or adaptation?

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 s...

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Published inDemographic research Vol. 17; pp. 859 - 896
Main Author Milewski, Nadja
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Rostock Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 20.12.2007
Max Planck Institut für Demografische Forschung
Subjects
Age
Child labor
Childbirth
Demography
Descendants
Federal Republic of Germany
Female fertility
Fertility
Greece
Human migration
Immigration
International migration
Mothers
Research Article
Spouses
Turkey
Women
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Summary: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.
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ISSN:1435-9871
1435-9871
2363-7064
DOI:10.4054/DemRes.2007.17.29