@article{Milewski_S6_29,
author = {Milewski, Nadja},
title={{First child of immigrant workers and their descendants in West Germany: Interrelation of events, disruption, or adaptation?}},
journal = {Demographic Research},
volume = {S6},
number = {29},
pages = {859--896},
doi = {10.4054/DemRes.2007.17.29},
year = {2007},
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.},
URL = {https://www.demographic-research.org/special/6/29/},
eprint = {https://www.demographic-research.org/special/6/29/s6-29.pdf}
}