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Health Inequalities for Immigrants in Canada : Quebec versus the Rest of Canada

LEBIHAN, Laetitia; MAO TAKONGMO, Charles Olivier; … - 2017

Little is known about immigrant health inequalities in Canada by province. To address this knowledge gap, we compare … multiple health indicators among immigrants in Quebec, immigrants in the rest of Canada and Canadian-born individuals. The … mental and physical health. Our results---obtained from data in the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS)---show that well …

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Health Disparities for Immigrants: Theory and Evidence from Canada

Lebihan, Laetitia; Mao Takongmo, Charles Olivier; … - 2018

Few empirical studies have been conducted to analyse the disparities in health variables affecting immigrants in a … given country. To our knowledge, no theoretical analysis has been conducted to explain health disparities for immigrants … Community Health Survey (CCHS) to compare multiple health measures among immigrants in Quebec, immigrants in the rest of Canada …

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Feeling discriminated means poor self-perceived health: a gender analysis using SHARE

Pinillos-Franco, Sara; Cantarero-Prieto, David; Lera, Javier - 2022

Most part of the literature has highlighted the detrimental effects of discrimination on health. However, the influence … of past and perceived discrimination on older workers’ self-assessed health has been understudied. We aim to study … whether reported discrimination is associated with self-assessed health among old men and women of working ages (50-65 years …

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Disabilità e povertà: il ruolo delle pensioni di invalidità civile. Un'analisi DSGE per i dati italiani

Agovino, Massimiliano; Ferrara, Maria - 2015

The aim of this paper is to investigate the effects of an increase in civilian disability pensions on key macroeconomic variables. In particular, the focus is on consumption of households with at least one disabled member. The analysis is performed simulating a DSGE model using Italian data. The...

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Can civilian disability pensions overcome the poverty issue? A DSGE analysis for Italian data

Agovino, Massimiliano; Ferrara, Maria - 2015

In Italy, poverty and disability are two strictly related issues (Parodi, 2004, 2006, 2007; Parodi and Sciulli, 2008; Davila Quintana and Malo, 2012). Moreover, public transfers are not sufficient to exlude households with at least one disabled member from the poverty risk. We simulate a simple Real...

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Dynamic analysis of loneliness and disability at older ages in Europe by gender

Pagan, Ricardo; Malo, Miguel - 2021

In this article, we analyse loneliness trajectories for older people aged 50 or more in selected European countries by gender. We focus on the relationship between disability and disability trajectories and loneliness trajectories. We use three waves of the longitudinal SHARE database. We find...

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Zum Einkommensreichtum Älterer in Deutschland- Neue Reichtumskennzahlen und Ergebnisse aus der Lohnund Einkommensteuerstatistik (FAST 2001)

Böhm, Paul; Merz, Joachim - 2008

This contribution analyzes income richness of elder persons in Germany in 2001. Using actual data of the German Wage and Income Tax Statistics, which are particularly suitable for the analysis of high incomes, new richness indices are discussed and new results are presented. It appears that the...

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