First child of immigrant workers and their descendants in West Germany: Interrelation of events, disruption, or adaptation?
By Nadja Milewski. 2007
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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.
Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science
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- The fertility of immigrants after arrival: The Italian case (2012, unknown): “Studies have found dependence among internal or international migration, marital status, and fertility career (Courgeau 1989; Mulder and Wagner 1993), especially when the risk of having a first birth is considered (Milewski 2007).”
- Immigrant fertility in West Germany: Is there a socialization effect in transitions to second and third births? (2010, methodology): “ Milewski (2007) and Garssen and Nicolaas (2008) find fertility levels close to convergence with that of the majority population in Germany and The Netherlands, respectively.”