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

Nadja Milewski
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Nadja Milewski: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

No WP-2006-034, MPIDR Working Papers from Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

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. We apply a hazard regression analysis 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. We trace the elevated birth risks shortly following the immigration 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. Our analysis indicates that second-generation immigrants are more adapted to the lower fertility levels of West Germans than their mothers’ generation.

Keywords: Germany; (Alte; Bundesländer) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2006-034

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