{"id":1970,"date":"2026-09-01T19:39:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2026-09-01T19:43:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:43:01","slug":"1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/2026\/09\/01\/1970\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do (even) Immigrant Women in S. Korea Exhibit Depressed Fertility? Investigating the Fertility of Commodified Marriage Migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Colloquium in August 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jiseon Baek (Reproductive Ageing Group, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)<\/strong><!-- notionvc: f76d0e7e-bd20-4348-b24d-5b6f00d4884e --><\/p>\n<p>A defining feature of marriage migration in South Korea is agency-arranged &#8220;commodified marriage.&#8221; Despite expectations, these migrant women exhibit fertility levels similar to or lower than Korean native women.<\/p>\n<p>This study investigates this trend by comparing the fertility behaviours of agency-arranged migrant women with non-agency-arranged, and native women. Using event history analysis on national survey data (2009-2021), we examined how marriage type and spousal age gaps interact in shaping birth transitions.<\/p>\n<p>Results show that while agency-arranged women transition to their first birth at a similar or faster pace, their second birth transition is lower, largely driven by the husband\u2019s older age.<\/p>\n<p>The finding suggests that understanding migrant fertility requires addressing structural challenges including large spousal age gaps, the transactional nature of these marriages, and discrimination.<!-- notionvc: 65af06b1-c165-4929-a0ac-8c2a011a6af4 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colloquium in August 2026 Jiseon Baek (Reproductive Ageing Group, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research) A defining feature of marriage migration in South Korea is agency-arranged &#8220;commodified marriage.&#8221; Despite expectations, these migrant women exhibit fertility levels similar to or lower than Korean native women. This study investigates this trend by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[61,36,89],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions\/1974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}