Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20888 
Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 52
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This study applies count data estimation techniques to investigate the fertility adjustment of immigrants in the destination country. Data on completed fertility are taken from the 1996 wave of the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP). While the economic literature stresses the role of prices and incomes as determinants of fertility, the demographic literature discusses whether assimilation or disruption effects dominate immigrants? fertility after migration. We find evidence in favor of the assimilation model according to which immigrant fertility converges to native levels over time. In addition, we confirm the negative impact of female human capital on fertility outcomes.
Subjects: 
Count data estimation
immigrant fertility
assimilation
disruption
JEL: 
J13
C25
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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