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The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … the host countries. Through a general literature review and examination of specific immigration countries, we provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735974
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … the host countries. Through a general literature review and examination of specific immigration countries, we provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119651
We study the impact of adult children's internal migration on the health and subjective well-being of elderly parents … left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel … and exogenous variation in children's astrological characteristics and apply instrumental variables methods. We find a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019306
from the Vital Statistics, it compares the health distribution (in terms of birth outcomes) of immigrant children born in …This paper provides new empirical evidence on the contribution of selective migration to the health advantage of … destination. These comparisons suggest that positive selection is partly responsible for the health advantage of recent immigrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228775
To our knowledge, no study has examined the effect of immigration on the health of older natives. We use the Study of … Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration affects depression among natives 65 …-80 years old. Immigration may increase the supply and lower the price of personal and household services, a term that refers to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146692
Previous research has found that immigration benefits the health of working-age natives, an effect mediated through the … labor market. We use the Study of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration also … affects the health of natives 65-80 years old. Immigration may increase the supply and lower the price of personal and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131032
Countries restrict the overall extent of international travel and migration to balance the expected costs and benefits of mobility. Given the ever-present threat of new, future pandemics, how should permanent restrictions on mobility respond? A simple theoretical framework predicts that reduced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389000
The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating … cultural effects can best gauge self-selection and host country effects on the health of emigrants with longer time abroad. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287319
The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating … cultural effects can best gauge self-selection and host country effects on the health of emigrants with longer time abroad. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265276
To our knowledge, no study has examined the effect of immigration on the health of older natives. We use the Study of … Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration affects depression among natives 65 …-80 years old. Immigration may increase the supply and lower the price of personal and household services, a term that refers to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857705