Native and Migrant Fertility Patterns in Greece: A Cohort Approach

Christos Bagavos (), Cleon Tsimbos () and Georgia Verropoulou ()
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Christos Bagavos: Panteion University of Athens
Cleon Tsimbos: University of Piraeus
Georgia Verropoulou: University of Piraeus

European Journal of Population, 2008, vol. 24, issue 3, No 1, 245-263

Abstract: Abstract This article examines fertility patterns and differentials between native women, and Albanian and Bulgarian immigrants, using data from the 2001 census of Greece on the reported numbers of children ever-born alive by citizenship. The analysis focuses on changing fertility timing and quantum of women born between 1950 and 1970, and reveals that cohort fertility is highest among Albanians and lowest among Bulgarians, while levels for native women are somewhere in between. Completed cohort fertility is decreasing over time for all nationalities, while the gap observed among the ethnic groups has been narrowing. Evidence based on the 2001 censuses of Albania and Bulgaria indicates that immigrants in Greece constitute, to some extent, selected groups, compared to the inhabitants of their countries of origin.

Keywords: Migrant fertility; Cohort analysis; Migrant selectivity; Greek census data; Albanian immigrants; Bulgarian immigrants; Fécondité des immigrées; Analyse par génération; Sélection des immigrés; Recensement Grèce; Immigrés albanais; Immigrés bulgares (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/s10680-007-9142-6

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