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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence

Constant, Amelie F. - 2017

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...

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A Broken Social Elevator? Employment Outcomes of First- and Second-generation Immigrants in Belgium

Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - 2020

This paper provides a comprehensive quantitative assessment of the employment performance of first- and second … first-generation immigrants face a substantial employment penalty (up to -36% points) vis-à-vis their native counterparts …. Among the key drivers of access to employment, we find: i) education for the descendants of non-EU-born immigrants, and ii …

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Trade Networks, Heroin Markets, and the Labor Market Outcomes of Vietnam Veterans

Lonsky, Jakub; Ruiz, Isabel; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2021

The role of ethnic immigrant networks in facilitating international trade is a well-established phenomenon in the literature. However, it is less clear whether this relationship extends to illegal trade and unauthorized immigrants. In this paper, we tackle this question by focusing on the case...

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Self-Selection in Physical and Mental Health among Older Intra-European Migrants

Constant, Amelie F.; Milewski, Nadja - 2020

The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the host country, may suffer from serious cultural biases. Our study evades such biases by utilizing a destination-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to...

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Birth in Hard Times When You Belong To Minorities

Bertoli, Paola; Grembi, Veronica; Nguyen, The Linh Bao - 2020

Combining a unique dataset of birth records with municipal-level real estate infor- mation, we assess the impact of the 2008 recession on the health of immigrant newborns in Italy. Health at birth (e.g., low birth weight) of immigrants deteriorated more than health at birth of Italians. The...

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The Role of Social Identity and Perceived Discrimination in Human Capital Formation: Evidence from India

Gupta, Isha - 2022

This study examines the role of historically defined social identity in human capital development over time by focusing on a region from India where social identities are defined along the lines of castes and religious groups. It investigates the evolution of gaps across social groups in...

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Moving Up the Social Ladder? Wages of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants from Developing Countries

Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022

As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...

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A Historical Note on the Assimilation Rates of Foreign-Born Women in the U.S.

Duleep, Harriet; Dowhan, Dan; Liu, Xingfei - 2023

Using historical, longitudinal data on individuals, we track the earnings of immigrant and U.S.-born women. Following individuals, instead of synthetic cohorts, avoids biases in earnings-growth estimates caused by compositional changes in the cohorts that are followed. The historical data...

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Do migrants displace native-born workers on the labour market? The impact of workers' origin

Fays, Valentine; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François - 2024

This article is the first to examine how 1st-generation migrants affect the employment of workers born in the host … covariates, suggest complementarity between the employment of 1st-generation migrants and workers born in Belgium (both natives …

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Immigrant overeducation across two generations: The role of gender and part-time work

Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2024

A large body of literature shows that first-generation immigrants born in developing countries experience a higher likelihood of being overeducated than natives (i.e. immigrant overeducation). However, evidence is remarkably scarce when it comes to the overeducation of second-generation...

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