Immigrants and Demography: Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility

Alicia Adsera and Ana Ferrer

No 7982, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This is a draft chapter for B. R. Chiswick and P. W. Miller (eds.) Handbook on the Economics of International Migration. It discusses some of the data and methodological challenges to estimating trends in family formation and union dissolution as well as fertility among immigrants, and examines the evidence collected from the main studies in the area. The literature on immigrant family formation is diverse but perhaps the key findings highlighted in this chapter are that outcomes depend greatly on the age at migration and on the cultural norms immigrants bring with them and their distance to those of the host country. With regard to marriage we focus on the determinants of intermarriage, the stability of these unions, and the timing of union formation. The last section of the chapter reviews, among other things, a set of mechanisms that may explain the fertility behavior of first generation immigrants; namely, selection, disruption and adaptation. The section ends with a focus on the second generation.

Keywords: fertility disruption; immigrant fertility; union dissolution; immigrant intermarriage; age at migration; adaptation; second generation; culture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J11 J12 J13 J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 76 pages
Date: 2014-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem and nep-mig
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Published - published in: Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Immigration, 1A, Elsevier, 2015

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