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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012264436
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012320282
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Divorce among European and Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.
Chiswick, Barry R.; Houseworth, Christina A. - 2019
This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
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Self-employment as a stepping stone to better labour market matching: a comparison between immigrants and natives
Ulceluse, Magdalena - 2018
The paper investigates whether self-employment represents a way to reduce overeducation and improve labour market … results shed light on the extent to which immigrants adjust to labour market imperfections and barriers to employment and … might help explain the higher incidence of self-employment that immigrants exhibit, when compared to natives. This is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011858094
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Family Unification, Siblings, and Skills
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark - 2018
criteria matched to 1990 Census data, we examine the effect of family admissions on immigrant education, self-employment, and …. Furthermore, sibling admissions are positively associated with immigrant self-employment. We also find that immigrant education … economic opportunities are limited for highly educated individuals. The results on earnings growth, self-employment, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011918295
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Gender, culture and STEM: Counter-intuitive patterns in Arab society
Friedman-Sokuler, Naomi; Justman, Moshe - 2019
Arab society in Israel offers a counter-example, which calls into question the hypothesis that the male advantage in STEM decreases as gender equality in society increases. Analyzing administrative longitudinal data on students in Hebrew- and Arabic-language schools in Israel, all operating...
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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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