TY  - JOUR
A1  - Milewski, Nadja
T1  - First child of immigrant workers and their descendants in West Germany: Interrelation of events, disruption, or adaptation?
Y1  - 2007/12/20
JF  - Demographic Research
JO  - Demographic Research
SN  - 1435-9871
SP  - 859
EP  - 896
DO  - 10.4054/DemRes.2007.17.29
VL  - S6
IS  - 29
UR  - https://www.demographic-research.org/special/6/29/
L1  - https://www.demographic-research.org/special/6/29/s6-29.pdf
L2  - https://www.demographic-research.org/special/6/29/s6-29.pdf
N2  - 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.

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