Reproductive contributions of Taiwan´s foreign wives from the top five source countries

Kao-Lee Liaw, Lin Ji-Ping and Chien-Chia Liu
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Kao-Lee Liaw: McMaster University
Lin Ji-Ping: Academia Sinica
Chien-Chia Liu: Academia Sinica

Demographic Research, 2011, vol. 24, issue 26, 633-670

Abstract: This research studies the reproductive contributions of Taiwan’s foreign wives from China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines, based on applications of the multinomial logit model to the micro data of the 2003 Census of Foreign Spouses. Wives from China are found to have the lowest lifetime fertility of 1.4 children, mainly because they were more prone to marry later, have a very large spousal age gap, be separated or divorced, and have their current marriage be their second marriage. The effect of wife’s educational attainment on lifetime fertility turned out to be either modest or nonexistent.

Keywords: fertility; Taiwan; international migration; international marriage; reproductive contribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2011.24.26

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