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DIFFERENTIALS IN SEX RATIO AT BIRTH AMONG NATIVES AND IMMIGRANTS IN GREECE: AN ANALYSIS EMPLOYING NATIONWIDE MICRO-DATA

  • GEORGIA VERROPOULOU (a1) (a2) and CLEON TSIMBOS (a1)
Summary

This study uses micro-level information on the live births registered in Greece for 2006 to assess differentials in the propensity to have a male offspring between natives and immigrants. The sex ratio at birth for the whole population is 106.3 but it is considerably higher among immigrants (110.9) than among natives (105.4). Relatively high sex ratios at birth are observed for several migrant groups; differentials between natives, on the one hand, and Albanians (109.5) and Asians (129.0), on the other, are significant. The high sex ratio at birth for Albanians seems typical of that population. For Asians, the result is consistent with international findings though it may also be partly related to the small number of observations.

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