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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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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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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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Ethnosizing Immigrants : A Theoretical Framework
Epstein, Gil S. - 2014
Recently, Constant, Gataullina, and Zimmermann (2009) established a new method to measure ethnic identity which they called the "ethnosizer". Using information on an individual's language, culture, social interactions, history of migration, and ethnic self-identification, the method classifies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043691
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Cultural Values and Decision to Work of Immigrant Women in Italy
Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2014
We investigate the role of culture in explaining economic outcomes at individual level analyzing how cultural values from the home country affect the decision to work of immigrants in Italy, using the National Survey of Households with Immigrants. Following the “epidemiological approach”, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045838
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Native-Immigrant Gaps in Educational and School-to-Work Transitions in the Second Generation : The Role of Gender and Ethnicity
Baert, Stijn - 2015
behaviors (fertility, marriage and cohabitation) related to hypotheses that attribute educational and economic gaps to cultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030862
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Migrant Ethnic Identity : Concept and Policy Implications
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007
With globalization, the size of migration and the value of ethnicity is rising. Also Cyprus undergoes a strong process of change while experiencing large inflows of migration. The paper investigates the challenges and the potentials of migration from a European Union perspective. It advocates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775761