particular family attributes, believe that development causes change in family life, believe that fertility reductions and age-at-marriage …

fertility, marriage, migration, and social mobility. …

Rhine which hamper or foster childbearing in cohabiting unions. Using data from the French and German Family and Fertility … Survey, we apply event history modeling to the transition to marriage and first birth. Our results indicate a polarization of … in France there is a polarization in a "marriage sector" and a "cohabiting sector". …

In studies of differences in fertility between migrants and non-migrants, marriage interferes because migration can be … motivated by an impending marriage or can entail entry into a marriage market with new opportunities. One would therefore expect … elevated fertility after migration, although a competing theory states that on the contrary fertility ought to be reduced in …

The fertility practices of immigrants are a particularly interesting field of study for demographers, providing an … insight into the fertility behaviour of individuals when both the society and the individual undergo a period of rapid change …. This paper describes and compares the fertility behaviour of two large groups of immigrants, from the former Soviet Union …

states entered via the formation and dissolution of cohabitation and marriage and the birth of the first child. [Methods:] We …