Alicia Adserà
Biographic Data
| ID | 87232 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alicia Adserà |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alicia |
| FAMILY NAME | Adserà |
| SIGNATURE | ADSERÀ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 502 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Pathways to childlessness in Spain: Exploring the intersection of partnership and employment trajectories
Spain's fertility is among the lowest in the world, due largely to an increasing number of childless women. Childlessness, whether a voluntary choice or not, often results from postponement of childbearing. This delay could be driven partly by the increased instability of partnerships and adverse labour-market conditions. Using data from Spain's Fertility Survey 2018, we use multichannel sequence analysis to identify the most common patterns of p…
“Language and Migration”
Gendered labor market adjustments around marital and cohabiting union transitions during Europe’s early cohabitation diffusion
BACKGROUNDWhile cross-sectional differences in hours worked, household income, and individual income among single, cohabiting, and married individuals are well documented, less is known about labor market changes that occur around the time of union transitions. OBJECTIVEThis paper examines labor market dynamics surrounding changes in union status during a time when cohabitation was rising across Europe but had not yet become as widespread as it i…
Introduction: Fertility and Social Inequalities in Migrant Populations: a Look at the Roles of Selection, Context of Reception, and Employment
This paper is the introduction to the Special Issue on “Fertility and social inequalities in migrant populations.” The Special Issue contains twelve empirical papers that deal with both international migrants and internal migrants, both women and men, both older migrant populations spanning several generations as well as recent immigrant groups, such as refugees, and include analyses of both behavior and intentions. The data used comprise macro i…
Advanced or postponed motherhood? Migrants' and natives' gap between ideal and actual age at first birth in Spain
Background: The analysis of migrants' preferences on the timing of fertility offers insights on how the migration experience and the contextual characteristics at destination might shape migrant women's expectations and behaviors. Objective: This paper explores the ideal age at first birth among Spanish and foreign-born women in Spain and its gap in relation to the actual age at first birth among those who are mothers. Methods: We use the 2018 Sp…
Growing inequality during the Great Recession: Labour market institutions and the education gap in unemployment across Europe and in the United States
We study how the education gap in unemployment has evolved by gender and age groups across 28 European countries and the United States from 2000 to 2014, using the European Union's Labour Force Surveys and the US Current Population Surveys. During and after the Great Recession, the absolute education gap in unemployment expanded in almost all countries, which was mainly driven by a marked increase in the unemployment risk among low educated men. …
The Role of Welfare in Locational Choices: Modelling Intra‐European Migration Decisions Across the Life‐Course
In this study, we add to the literature by investigating the role of welfare states in intra‐European migration decisions between 25 countries (2003‐2008). Distinguishing between three welfare programmes (unemployment, family and old‐age benefits) we tested whether social expenditure on each of these arrangements particularly influenced locational choices of individuals within the age groups covered by the respective welfare policy. Findings from…
Age at migration, family instability, and timing of sexual onset
The Fertility of Married Immigrant Women to Canada
This paper uses the confidential files of the Canadian Census 1991–2006 to examine the fertility of married immigrant women (the presence of infants and preschool children in the household) around the time of migration. Then it estimates a proportional hazards model of first-birth risks of migrants relative to natives from two years before to five years after arrival to Canada. While immigrants have relatively fewer births during the two years pr…
The Role of Language in Shaping International Migration
This paper examines the importance of language in international migration from multiple angles by studying the role of linguistic proximity, widely spoken languages, linguistic enclaves and language-based immigration policy requirements. To this aim we collect a unique dataset on immigration flows and stocks in 30 OECD destinations from all world countries over the period 1980-2010, and construct a set of linguistic proximity measures. Migration …
Factors influencing the fertility choices of child immigrants in Canada
We analysed the fertility of women who migrated to Canada before reaching age 19, using the 20 per cent sample of the Canadian censuses from 1991 to 2006. Fertility increases with age at immigration, and is particularly high for those immigrating in late adolescence. This pattern prevails regardless of the country of origin, and of whether the mother tongue of the migrants was an official language in Canada. The fertility of those for whom it was…
Son Preference and Children’s Housework: The Case of India
Fertility Patterns of Child Migrants: Age at Migration and Ancestry in Comparative Perspective
This article examines the fertility of women who migrated as children to one of three OECD countries-Canada, the United Kingdom, and France-and how it differs from that of native-born women, by age at migration. By looking at child migrants whose fertility behavior is neither interrupted by the migration event nor confounded by selection, the authors obtain a unique perspective on the adaptation process as a mechanism that explains variation in o…
Comparative Perspectives on International Migration and Child Well-Being
Where Are the Babies? Labor Market Conditions and Fertility in Europe
The interplay of employment uncertainty and education in explaining second births in Europe
This paper analyzes how labor market instability since the late 1980s in Europe mediated decisions to second births. In particular, it examines which are the dimensions of economic uncertainty that affect women with different educational backgrounds. First, employing time varying measures of aggregate market conditions for women in twelve European countries as well as micro-measures of each woman's labor market history, it shows that delays in se…
Fertility changes in Latin America in periods of economic uncertainty
We explore the relation between fertility and the business cycle in Latin American countries taking advantage of the existing cross-country and within-country differences in both fertility and macroeconomic conditions. First, we use a panel of 18 nations for over 45 years to study how different labor market and economic shocks may have affected fertility. Second, we estimate Cox proportional hazard models of transitions to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd birth…
Reply to the note by Neuman ‘Is fertility indeed related to religiosity
Are there gender and country of origin differences in immigrant labor market outcomes across European destinations
Marital fertility and religion in Spain, 1985 and 1999
Since the transition to democracy in Spain in 1975, both total fertility and rates of church attendance of Catholics have dropped dramatically. In this study the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys were used to investigate whether the significance of religion for fertility behaviour -- current family size and the spacing of births -- changed between the survey dates. In the 1985 survey, family size was similar for those Catholics who actively…
Vanishing Children: From High Unemployment to Low Fertility in Developed Countries
During the last four decades the average total fertility rate in OECD countries witnessed a dramatic fall: from 2.9 in 1960 to 2.0 in 1975 and then to 1.6 in the late 1990s (reaching 1.25 in Southern Europe). With the exception of the United States, all advanced countries now have fertility rates well below the replacement rate of 2.1. In the absence of either sharp changes in fertility behavior or large inflows of immigrants, their populations a…
Trade, Democracy, and the Size of the Public Sector: The Political Underpinnings of Openness
Politics remains prominently absent in the literature showing that higher levels of trade integration lead to a larger public sector. As openness increases, the state, acting as a social planner, adopts a salient role to minimize the risks of economic integration and secure social peace. Given the highly redistributive nature of both trade and fiscal policies, we claim, however, that the interaction of the international economy and domestic polit…
Trade, Democracy, and the Size of the Public Sector: The Political Underpinnings of Openness
Politics remains prominently absent in the literature showing that higher levels of trade integration lead to a larger public sector. As openness increases, the state, acting as a social planner, adopts a salient role to minimize the risks of economic integration and secure social peace. Given the highly redistributive nature of both trade and fiscal policies, we claim, however, that the interaction of the international economy and domestic polit…
Are there gender and country of origin differences in immigrant labor market outcomes across European destinations
Where Are the Babies? Labor Market Conditions and Fertility in Europe
The Role of Language in Shaping International Migration
This paper examines the importance of language in international migration from multiple angles by studying the role of linguistic proximity, widely spoken languages, linguistic enclaves and language-based immigration policy requirements. To this aim we collect a unique dataset on immigration flows and stocks in 30 OECD destinations from all world countries over the period 1980-2010, and construct a set of linguistic proximity measures. Migration …
Marital fertility and religion in Spain, 1985 and 1999
Since the transition to democracy in Spain in 1975, both total fertility and rates of church attendance of Catholics have dropped dramatically. In this study the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys were used to investigate whether the significance of religion for fertility behaviour -- current family size and the spacing of births -- changed between the survey dates. In the 1985 survey, family size was similar for those Catholics who actively…
The interplay of employment uncertainty and education in explaining second births in Europe
This paper analyzes how labor market instability since the late 1980s in Europe mediated decisions to second births. In particular, it examines which are the dimensions of economic uncertainty that affect women with different educational backgrounds. First, employing time varying measures of aggregate market conditions for women in twelve European countries as well as micro-measures of each woman's labor market history, it shows that delays in se…
Factors influencing the fertility choices of child immigrants in Canada
We analysed the fertility of women who migrated to Canada before reaching age 19, using the 20 per cent sample of the Canadian censuses from 1991 to 2006. Fertility increases with age at immigration, and is particularly high for those immigrating in late adolescence. This pattern prevails regardless of the country of origin, and of whether the mother tongue of the migrants was an official language in Canada. The fertility of those for whom it was…
Fertility changes in Latin America in periods of economic uncertainty
We explore the relation between fertility and the business cycle in Latin American countries taking advantage of the existing cross-country and within-country differences in both fertility and macroeconomic conditions. First, we use a panel of 18 nations for over 45 years to study how different labor market and economic shocks may have affected fertility. Second, we estimate Cox proportional hazard models of transitions to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd birth…
Fertility Patterns of Child Migrants: Age at Migration and Ancestry in Comparative Perspective
This article examines the fertility of women who migrated as children to one of three OECD countries-Canada, the United Kingdom, and France-and how it differs from that of native-born women, by age at migration. By looking at child migrants whose fertility behavior is neither interrupted by the migration event nor confounded by selection, the authors obtain a unique perspective on the adaptation process as a mechanism that explains variation in o…
The Fertility of Married Immigrant Women to Canada
This paper uses the confidential files of the Canadian Census 1991–2006 to examine the fertility of married immigrant women (the presence of infants and preschool children in the household) around the time of migration. Then it estimates a proportional hazards model of first-birth risks of migrants relative to natives from two years before to five years after arrival to Canada. While immigrants have relatively fewer births during the two years pr…
Son Preference and Children’s Housework: The Case of India
Age at migration, family instability, and timing of sexual onset
Reply to the note by Neuman ‘Is fertility indeed related to religiosity
Comparative Perspectives on International Migration and Child Well-Being
Trade, Democracy, and the Size of the Public Sector: The Political Underpinnings of Openness
Politics remains prominently absent in the literature showing that higher levels of trade integration lead to a larger public sector. As openness increases, the state, acting as a social planner, adopts a salient role to minimize the risks of economic integration and secure social peace. Given the highly redistributive nature of both trade and fiscal policies, we claim, however, that the interaction of the international economy and domestic polit…
Vanishing Children: From High Unemployment to Low Fertility in Developed Countries
During the last four decades the average total fertility rate in OECD countries witnessed a dramatic fall: from 2.9 in 1960 to 2.0 in 1975 and then to 1.6 in the late 1990s (reaching 1.25 in Southern Europe). With the exception of the United States, all advanced countries now have fertility rates well below the replacement rate of 2.1. In the absence of either sharp changes in fertility behavior or large inflows of immigrants, their populations a…
Are there gender and country of origin differences in immigrant labor market outcomes across European destinations
Marital fertility and religion in Spain, 1985 and 1999
Since the transition to democracy in Spain in 1975, both total fertility and rates of church attendance of Catholics have dropped dramatically. In this study the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys were used to investigate whether the significance of religion for fertility behaviour -- current family size and the spacing of births -- changed between the survey dates. In the 1985 survey, family size was similar for those Catholics who actively…
Reply to the note by Neuman ‘Is fertility indeed related to religiosity
Where Are the Babies? Labor Market Conditions and Fertility in Europe
The interplay of employment uncertainty and education in explaining second births in Europe
This paper analyzes how labor market instability since the late 1980s in Europe mediated decisions to second births. In particular, it examines which are the dimensions of economic uncertainty that affect women with different educational backgrounds. First, employing time varying measures of aggregate market conditions for women in twelve European countries as well as micro-measures of each woman's labor market history, it shows that delays in se…
Fertility changes in Latin America in periods of economic uncertainty
We explore the relation between fertility and the business cycle in Latin American countries taking advantage of the existing cross-country and within-country differences in both fertility and macroeconomic conditions. First, we use a panel of 18 nations for over 45 years to study how different labor market and economic shocks may have affected fertility. Second, we estimate Cox proportional hazard models of transitions to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd birth…
Fertility Patterns of Child Migrants: Age at Migration and Ancestry in Comparative Perspective
This article examines the fertility of women who migrated as children to one of three OECD countries-Canada, the United Kingdom, and France-and how it differs from that of native-born women, by age at migration. By looking at child migrants whose fertility behavior is neither interrupted by the migration event nor confounded by selection, the authors obtain a unique perspective on the adaptation process as a mechanism that explains variation in o…
Comparative Perspectives on International Migration and Child Well-Being
Son Preference and Children’s Housework: The Case of India
Factors influencing the fertility choices of child immigrants in Canada
We analysed the fertility of women who migrated to Canada before reaching age 19, using the 20 per cent sample of the Canadian censuses from 1991 to 2006. Fertility increases with age at immigration, and is particularly high for those immigrating in late adolescence. This pattern prevails regardless of the country of origin, and of whether the mother tongue of the migrants was an official language in Canada. The fertility of those for whom it was…
The Role of Language in Shaping International Migration
This paper examines the importance of language in international migration from multiple angles by studying the role of linguistic proximity, widely spoken languages, linguistic enclaves and language-based immigration policy requirements. To this aim we collect a unique dataset on immigration flows and stocks in 30 OECD destinations from all world countries over the period 1980-2010, and construct a set of linguistic proximity measures. Migration …
The Fertility of Married Immigrant Women to Canada
This paper uses the confidential files of the Canadian Census 1991–2006 to examine the fertility of married immigrant women (the presence of infants and preschool children in the household) around the time of migration. Then it estimates a proportional hazards model of first-birth risks of migrants relative to natives from two years before to five years after arrival to Canada. While immigrants have relatively fewer births during the two years pr…
Age at migration, family instability, and timing of sexual onset
The Role of Welfare in Locational Choices: Modelling Intra‐European Migration Decisions Across the Life‐Course
In this study, we add to the literature by investigating the role of welfare states in intra‐European migration decisions between 25 countries (2003‐2008). Distinguishing between three welfare programmes (unemployment, family and old‐age benefits) we tested whether social expenditure on each of these arrangements particularly influenced locational choices of individuals within the age groups covered by the respective welfare policy. Findings from…
Growing inequality during the Great Recession: Labour market institutions and the education gap in unemployment across Europe and in the United States
We study how the education gap in unemployment has evolved by gender and age groups across 28 European countries and the United States from 2000 to 2014, using the European Union's Labour Force Surveys and the US Current Population Surveys. During and after the Great Recession, the absolute education gap in unemployment expanded in almost all countries, which was mainly driven by a marked increase in the unemployment risk among low educated men. …
Introduction: Fertility and Social Inequalities in Migrant Populations: a Look at the Roles of Selection, Context of Reception, and Employment
This paper is the introduction to the Special Issue on “Fertility and social inequalities in migrant populations.” The Special Issue contains twelve empirical papers that deal with both international migrants and internal migrants, both women and men, both older migrant populations spanning several generations as well as recent immigrant groups, such as refugees, and include analyses of both behavior and intentions. The data used comprise macro i…
Advanced or postponed motherhood? Migrants' and natives' gap between ideal and actual age at first birth in Spain
Background: The analysis of migrants' preferences on the timing of fertility offers insights on how the migration experience and the contextual characteristics at destination might shape migrant women's expectations and behaviors. Objective: This paper explores the ideal age at first birth among Spanish and foreign-born women in Spain and its gap in relation to the actual age at first birth among those who are mothers. Methods: We use the 2018 Sp…
Gendered labor market adjustments around marital and cohabiting union transitions during Europe’s early cohabitation diffusion
BACKGROUNDWhile cross-sectional differences in hours worked, household income, and individual income among single, cohabiting, and married individuals are well documented, less is known about labor market changes that occur around the time of union transitions. OBJECTIVEThis paper examines labor market dynamics surrounding changes in union status during a time when cohabitation was rising across Europe but had not yet become as widespread as it i…
Pathways to childlessness in Spain: Exploring the intersection of partnership and employment trajectories
Spain's fertility is among the lowest in the world, due largely to an increasing number of childless women. Childlessness, whether a voluntary choice or not, often results from postponement of childbearing. This delay could be driven partly by the increased instability of partnerships and adverse labour-market conditions. Using data from Spain's Fertility Survey 2018, we use multichannel sequence analysis to identify the most common patterns of p…
“Language and Migration”
Economics (15 works) · Demography (14 works) · Demographic economics (12 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (12 works) · Fertility (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Population (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (9 works) · Geography (8 works)