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We examine the impact of population distribution on fertility in a nationally representative sample. We exploit … link migration and fertility: socialization, adaptation, selection, and disruption. Our multivariate analysis examines … are partly explained by compositional factors, such as female employment, union type, and education. The analysis presents …
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women. Secondly, our results show elevated fertility levels after couples have changed their housing, suggesting that much …This study examines fertility variation across housing types and childbearing patterns after housing changes. While the … various housing types, despite the fact that many studies suggest housing as an important determinant of fertility. We use …
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This paper investigates the impact of immigration on the transition to motherhood among women from Turkey, Italy, Spain … 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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Fertility rates are known to be higher in city suburbs. One interpretation is that the suburban ‘context’ influences … explains the higher fertility levels. Furthermore, suburban in-migrants who intend to have children may have a significant … influence on suburban fertility rates. Using Finnish longitudinal register data we show that fertility rates are higher in the …
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unions. For the fertility of partnered women in the two groups it does not seem to matter much whether they are married. … of childbearing. The purpose of the present paper is to display selected features of fertility in consensual and marital … this end we use underlying fertility rates specified by union duration and utilize a metric based on an aggregation of such …
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This article is an introduction to Special Collection 6 of Demographic Research whose articles investigate the interrelations between the family and migration behaviour of individuals in industrialised countries. We first review the life-course approach and previous research on the interplay...
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that internal migrants largely exhibit fertility levels dominant in their childhood environment, while later studies find … migrants’ fertility to resemble more closely that of natives at destination. Some authors attribute the latter to adaptation …, but others claim that selection of migrants by fertility preferences may be the cause. Moreover, the short-term fertility …
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recently published in this journal. Both articles addressed the relationship between men’s gender attitudes and fertility … attitudes and fertility. …
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fertility, not only in the selected eight European countries but also in a considerable number of other developed countries. We …
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fertility; and (2) Formal childcare availability has different effects across contexts, according to the degree of adaptation of …
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