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Fertility and spatial mobility: evidence from Austria

Kulu, Hill - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2005

There is a growing body of literature looking at the interplay between an individual’s residential and other careers in the life-course. Previous research has mostly studied the impact of partnership and employment changes on spatial mobility. This paper focuses on the effect of childbearing...

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Migration and marriage: Modeling the joint process

Jang, Bohyun; Casterline, John; Snyder, Anastasia - In: Demographic Research 30 (2014) 47, pp. 1339-1366

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Spousal separation, selectivity and contextual effects: exploring the relationship between international labour migration and fertility in post-Soviet Tajikistan

Clifford, David - In: Demographic Research 21 (2009) 32, pp. 945-975

This paper contributes to the sparse literature on the impact of temporary migration on fertility in origin areas. It … examines the case of male labour migration from post-Soviet Tajikistan, a significant and relatively recent phenomenon …. Fertility and migration models are solved simultaneously to account for cross-process correlation. There is clear evidence for a …

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Masculine sex ratios, population age structure and the potential spread of HIV in China

Merli, M. Giovanna; Hertog, Sara - In: Demographic Research 22 (2010) 3, pp. 63-94

There is much speculation regarding the contribution of Chinaâ€™s changing demography to the spread of HIV/AIDS. We employ a bio-behavioral macrosimulation model of the heterosexual spread of HIV/AIDS to evaluate the roles that Chinaâ€™s unique demographic conditions -- (1) masculine...

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Moving close to parents and adult children in the Netherlands: the influence of support needs

Smits, Annika - In: Demographic Research 22 (2010) 31, pp. 985-1014

In this paper, the extent to which support needs lead to moves of adult children (aged 30 and above) to within one kilometer of their parents and vice versa is examined. Using Netherlands population data from 2004 and 2005, it is found that the divorce of the adult child increases the likelihood...

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Trends in East-West German Migration from 1989 to 2002

Heiland, Frank - In: Demographic Research 11 (2004) 7, pp. 173-194

The purpose of this article is to show recent trends in regional migration from East to West Germany by combining data …

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Marriage formation as a process intermediary between migration and childbearing

Hoem, Jan M.; Nedoluzhko, Lesia - In: Demographic Research 18 (2008) 21, pp. 611-628

In studies of differences in fertility between migrants and non-migrants, marriage interferes because migration can be … elevated fertility after migration, although a competing theory states that on the contrary fertility ought to be reduced in … the time around the move because migration temporarily disturbs the life of the migrant. In any case marriage appears as a …

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Evaluation of a village-informant driven demographic surveillance system in Karonga, Northern Malawi

Jahn, Andreas; Branson, Keith; Crampin, Amelia; Fine, … - In: Demographic Research 16 (2007) 8, pp. 219-248

This paper describes and evaluates the first demographic surveillance system (DSS) in Malawi, covering a rural population of 30,000. Unlike others, the Karonga DSS relies on trained village informants using formatted registers for the primary notification of vital events and migrations. Seven...

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Social construction of neglect: the case of unaccompanied minors from Morocco to Spain

Empez, Nuria - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2007

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Migration and first-time parenthood: evidence from Kyrgyzstan

Nedoluzhko, Lesia; Andersson, Gunnar - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2006

-history techniques to data from the “Marriage, Fertility, and Migration” survey conducted in northern Kyrgyzstan in 2005 to estimate … relative risks of becoming a parent. We demonstrate to what extent migration is part of the family building process and how it … such as the geographical destination of migration, and of retrospectively stated motives for the move. In addition, we …

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