Katharina Wolf

University of Groningen | RUG · Faculty of Spatial Sciences

Our study focus es on the fertility of first-generation femal e and male Turkish migrants in Germany. To evaluate whether timing effects such as fertility disruption or an interrelation of marriage, migration and childbirth occur, we examine first and second births in the years before and after immigration to Germany. The Turkish sample of the Genera...

Demography, the official journal of the Population Association of America, has been given the highest rating among demographic journals by the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). Our aim here is to investigate the development of research subfields and female authorship in Demography over the last 50 years. We find that female authorship in Demog...

The fertility behavior of migrants is often studied by examining migrants and native non-migrants in the country of destination. We take the opposite perspective and compare Ghanaian emigrants who are residing in Europe with non-migrants in Ghana. Even if there are numerous discussions on how to explain and model migrant fertility, research scholar...

In der vorliegenden Studie analysieren wir auf Basis des Mikrozensus das Erst- und Zweitgeburtsverhalten der Nachkommen türkischer Migrant innen in Deutschland. In früheren Wellen des Mikrozensus wurde zur Identifikation des Migrationshintergrundes lediglich die Staatsbürgerschaft erfragt. Die Mikrozensuswellen 2005 und 2009 geben nun erstmals Ausk...

In this study, we use data of the German Mikrozensus to explore first and second birth behavior of migrants’ descendants. Whereas prior waves of the Mik - rozensus only included respondents’ citizenship, in the survey years 2005 and 2009 also parental citizenship has been surveyed. This allows us to identify respondents’ migrant backgrounds, eve...

Turkish migrants and their descendants are the largest migrant group from a single origin country living in Germany. The German Mikrozensus as a large dataset allows us to distinguish between Turkish migrants who migrated as children (1.5 generation) and those wh o were born to Turkish parents in Germany (second generation migrants). We compare...

This Technical Report describes a database that has been established for the research project “Gendered authorship and demographic research – An analysis of 50 years of Demography”. In this project, we have investigated whether gender determines field of publication. Our analysis was based on all papers published in “Demography” which is the flagsh...