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This paper focuses on the role of home country's fertility culture in shaping immigrants' fertility. I use the German … Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first-generation immigrants who arrived from different countries … and in different years. The variation in total fertility rates (TFRs) across countries and over time serves as a proxy for …
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education track attendance from the first to the second generation of immigrants. Second, we find that reduced fertility is …
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In this paper we examine the fertility experience of immigrants during their first years in Canada. Fertility decisions …
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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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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 …
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undocumented immigrants' fertility. We find that a one standard deviation increases in enforcement lowers childbearing among likely …
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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...
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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...
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the populations in the receiving countries. This fact, combined with higher fertility rates and also a continued inflow of …
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We empirically assess the relationship between cultural assimilation and subjective well-being of immigrants by using the German Socio-Economic Panel, a longitudinal dataset including information on both the economic and non-economic conditions of the respondents. We find that the more...
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