This paper focuses on the role of the home country's birth rates in shaping immigrant fertility. We use the German … Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first generation immigrants who arrived from different countries … ; fertility ; socialization ; underdispersion …

Based on a 1% sample of the German population, we study how fertility rates in the country of origin—a proxy for … cultural imprint—influence the fertility outcomes of first- and second-generation female immigrants. We use both total … fertility rates in the year of migration and a new measure of completed cohort fertility rates in the countries of origin as …

education track attendance from the first to the second generation of immigrants. Second, we find that reduced fertility is … immigrant groups in both France and Germany, two major European economies with distinct immigration histories. …

This book examines fertility patterns of post-war labor migrants and their descendants in Germany. It includes an … introduction to the post-war migration history of Germany and a thorough review of the international literature on fertility of … the conventional cross-sectional approach and sets a new standard for research on the fertility of international migrants …

women who migrated to Germany between 1990 and 2015. Special emphasis is placed on the large groups of migrants who have … moved to Germany from Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries since the 1990s. We find that CEE migrants had higher …This paper uses data from the Migrant Samples of the German Socio-Economic Panel to study the fertility behaviour of …