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The impact of Medicaid on medical utilization in a vulnerable population : evidence from COFA migrants
Halliday, Timothy; Akee, Randall Q.; Sentell, Tetine; … - 2019
Free Association (COFA) in its Medicaid program. COFA migrants were required to obtain private insurance in the exchanges … established under the Affordable Care Act. Using statewide hospital discharge data, we show that Medicaid-funded hospitalizations …, but not enough to offset the declines in Medicaid-funded utilization. Finally, the expiration of benefits increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138475
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The psychic costs of migration : evidence from Irish return migrants
Barrett, Alan; Mosca, Irene - 2012
Within the economics literature, the "psychic costs" of migration have been incorporated into theoretical models since Sjaastad (1962). However, the existence of such costs has rarely been investigated in empirical papers. In this paper, we look at the psychic costs of migration using alcohol...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530768
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Adverse working conditions and immigrants' physical health and depression outcomes: a longitudinal study in Greece
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
The study examines whether adverse working conditions for immigrants in Greece bear an association with deteriorated physical health and increased levels of depression during 2018 and 2019. Findings indicate that workers with no written contract of employment, receiving hourly wages lower than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612599
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Mobile applications aiming to facilitate immigrants' societal integration and overall level of integration, health and mental health: does artificial intelligence enhance outcomes?
Drydakis, Nick - 2020
Using panel data on immigrant populations from European, Asian and African countries the study estimates positive associations between the number of mobile applications in use aiming to facilitate immigrants' societal integration (m-Integration) and increased level of integration (Ethnosizer),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012372890
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Immigration policy and immigrants' sleep: evidence from DACA
Giuntella, Osea; Lonsky, Jakub; Mazzonna, Fabrizio; … - 2020
Stress is associated with sleep problems. And poor sleep is linked with mental health and depression symptoms. The stress associated with immigrant status and immigration policy can directly affect mental health. While previous studies have documented a significant relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248883
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Social networks and mental health problems : evidence from rural-to-urban migrants in China
Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen - 2017
Over the past two decades, more than 160 million rural residents have migrated to cities in China. They are usually separated from their rural families and work in an unfamiliar, and sometimes hostile, city environment. This paper investigates to what extent city social networks alleviate mental...
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The effect of minimum wages on immigrants' employment and earnings
Orrenius, Pia M. (contributor);  … - 2008
This study examines how minimum wage laws affect the employment and earnings of low-skilled immigrants and natives in the U.S. Minimum wage increases might have larger effects among low-skilled immigrants than among natives because, on average, immigrants earn less than natives due to lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716537
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Immigrant labor, child care services, and the work fertility trade-off in the United States
Furtado, Delia (contributor); Hock, Heinrich (contributor) - 2008
The negative correlation between female employment and fertility in industrialized nations has weakened since the 1960s, particularly in the United States. We suggest that the continuing influx of low-skilled immigrants has led to a substantial reduction in the trade-off between work and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719621
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Modeling immigrants' language skills
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor);  … - 2007
One in nine people between the ages of 18 and 64 in the US, and every second foreign-born person in this age bracket, speaks Spanish at home. And whereas around 80 percent of adult immigrants in the US from non-English speaking countries other than Mexico are proficient in English, only about 50...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635218
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The "negative" assimilation of immigrants : a special case
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor);  … - 2008
Research on the economic or labor market assimilation of immigrants has to date focused on the degree of improvement in their economic status with duration in the destination. This pattern has been found for all the immigrant receiving countries, time periods and data sets that have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726800