The Empirical Analysis of East German Fertility after Unification: An Update
Journal
European Journal of Population
ISSN
0168-6577
ISSN-Digital
1572-9885
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2001-01-01
Author(s)
Abstract
Not available in German. German unification led a drastic decline in the East German birth rate. Recent explanations of this phenomena point to the importance of an adjustment process of the East German pattern with often early births to the West German pattern with fairly late births. The paper presents an update on previous analyses of age specific birth rates, as well as a new microeconomic approach based on individual data. The empirical evidence presented in this paper supports the view that the sharp reduction in East German fertility is in fact part of an adjustment process towards West German fertility patterns. (doi:10.1023/A:1010792230291)
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
No
Publisher
Kluwer Acad. Publ.
Publisher place
Dordrecht
Volume
17
Number
1
Start page
61
End page
74
Pages
14
Subject(s)
Eprints ID
15966