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The Fertility of Recent Immigrants to Canada
Adserà, Alícia - 2013
In this paper we examine the fertility experience of immigrants during their first years in Canada. Fertility decisions …
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Age at Migration, Language and Fertility Patterns Among Migrants to Canada
Adserà, Alícia - 2013
This paper explores the fertility decisions of Canadian immigrants using the 20 percent sample of the Canadian Census … assimilation in terms of fertility. Our analysis does not show any sharp discontinuity by age at migration as sometimes observed on … education or labor market outcomes are not present in fertility outcomes. Rather, there is an inverted U shape relationship …
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Immigrants and Demography : Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility
Adserà, Alícia - 2014
dissolution as well as fertility among immigrants, and examines the evidence collected from the main studies in the area … may explain the fertility behavior of first generation immigrants; namely, selection, disruption and adaptation. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057911
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U.S. Immigration Policy and Immigrant Fertility
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther - 2021
undocumented immigrants' fertility. We find that a one standard deviation increases in enforcement lowers childbearing among likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324297
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Bridges or buffers? : motives behind immigrants’ religiosity
Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-23
This study reviews and evaluates the motives and incentives behind immigrants’ religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify indicators for the type of incentive – whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224804
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Immigrants and Religion
Chiswick, Carmel U. - 2014
Religious considerations affect the decision to immigrate as well as the choice of destination country, and religious behaviors change as immigrants adjust to the economic context of their new country. This paper considers the interaction between the Economics of Religion and the Economics of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055551
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Is Religiosity of Immigrants a Bridge or a Buffer in the Process of Integration? A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States
García-Muñoz, Teresa - 2012
the populations in the receiving countries. This fact, combined with higher fertility rates and also a continued inflow of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109434
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Trust of second-generation immigrants : intergenerational transmission or cultural assimilation?
Moschion, Julie; Tabasso, Domenico - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-30
This paper studies the respective influences of intergenerational transmission and the environment in shaping individual trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home country and in the host country to separate the effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010372436
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Ethnic Identity and Immigrants' Wages in Greece
Drydakis, Nick - 2011
This study investigates the impact of ethnic identity on Albanian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Georgian, and Russian wages in Greece. Treating ethnic identity as a composite of language, cultural habits, ethnic-self identification, societal interaction, and future citizenship plans, the estimations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118537
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Trust of Second Generation Immigrants : Intergenerational Transmission or Cultural Assimilation?
Moschion, Julie - 2013
This paper studies the respective influence of intergenerational transmission and the environment in shaping individual trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and in the host country to separate the effect of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086660