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Fertility rates are known to be higher in city suburbs. One interpretation is that the suburban ‘context’ influences the behaviour of individuals who reside there while an alternative is that the ‘composition’ of the suburban population explains the higher fertility levels. Furthermore,...
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the influence of family and kin networks on the individual decision to migrate. The study is based on qualitative ethnographic data collected during field research in Cameroon and shows the considerable impact of the extended family on the migrant’s...
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Demographers and others often study the interaction between two types of individual-level behaviour, such as migration … and childbearing. Unfortunately, one can get estimation bias if one compares childbearing before and after migration from … data confined to migrants, say, as is sometimes done to see whether international migration disrupts fertility. Similar …
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This paper analyzes the mechanisms of occupational trajectories and occupational cost of migration among Senegalese … job score declines just after the migration, but then gradually improves with duration of stay in Europe. However, the … mobility relative to the first year after migration. There is also some evidence of cumulative inertia since the likelihood of …
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In our study we investigate interdependencies between entry into a marital union, childbearing, and migration. We apply … associated with increased marriage risks. Migration is often a part of the family building process: high first-birth propensities … of recent migrants as well as high migration risks among pregnant women are due to marriage-related migration. …
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inter-regional migration for men and women, focusing on four specific migration types: rural-urban, rural-rural, urban …, employment, marital status, and childbearing—differ by sex for these four types of migration. We find that women are … their male counterparts. Moreover, employment in the prior year is less of a deterrent to migration among women. While …
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This paper argues against the suggestion that governments should push for gender equality more aggressively in order to raise fertility. The paper presents a threefold “no†to this proposal. It takes issue with the goal of raising fertility, arguing that the claims that fertility must...
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