Fertility of internal migrants: comparison between Austria and Poland

Hill Kulu
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Hill Kulu: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

No WP-2004-022, MPIDR Working Papers from Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

Abstract: Previous research has proposed four competing views on an individual’s fertility following a move from one social context to another. Each view has received support but has also been challenged by literature. This study contributes to the existing discussion on fertility by providing an analysis of the effects of internal migration on the fertility of post-war Austrian and Polish female cohorts. We base our study on retrospective event-history data and apply intensity regression to both single and simultaneous equations. Our analysis shows, first, that natives in urban areas in general and in the large cities in particular have lower fertility compared to non-migrants in rural areas, both in Austria and Poland. Second, it reveals that people who move from one place to another adopt the fertility behaviour that is dominant at destination. Third, we observe an elevated first birth risk for women who move because of union formation, and a short-term postponement of childbearing for those who settle in a large city. Our country comparison shows some differences in fertility variation across settlements, but, overall, the results are quite similar, despite the different post-war societal context of two countries.

Keywords: Austria; Poland; event history analysis; fertility; internal migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2004-022

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