Volume 17 - Article 29 | Pages 859–896
First child of immigrant workers and their descendants in West Germany: Interrelation of events, disruption, or adaptation?
This article is part of the Special Collection 6 „Interdependencies in the Life Course: Family, Fertility, and Migration“
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. A hazard-regression analysis is applied 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. Elevated birth risks that occur shortly following the immigration are traced 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. The analysis indicates that second-generation immigrants are more adapted to the lower fertility levels of West Germans than their mothers’ generation is.
Author’s Affiliation
- Nadja Milewski - Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung (BiB), Germany EMAIL
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