Missing women in the United Kingdom

Artikel

This paper investigates the gender-selection decisions of immigrants in the United Kingdom, using data from the 1971-2006 General Household Survey. We examine sex-selection in the UK among immigrant families and the gender composition of previous births, conditional on socio-economic characteristics. Our key result is that better-educated immigrants balance their family after the birth of two sons, by having a daughter thereafter. Our study also is the first to estimate the number of missing women among Asian immigrants in a European country, contributing to research on the US and Canada that missing women are also a phenomenon of the developed world.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: IZA Journal of Migration ; ISSN: 2193-9039 ; Volume: 2 ; Year: 2013 ; Pages: 1-19 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; Economywide Country Studies: Europe
• Subject: sex-selection ; gender bias

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Adamou, Adamos ; Drakos, Christina ; Iyer, Sriya
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Springer
• (where): Heidelberg
• (when): 2013

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1186/2193-9039-2-10
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/92236
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET