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Ageing, the socioeconomic burden, labour market and migration. The Chinese case in an international perspective
Bruni, Michele - 2018
China still lags behind Europe along the path of the demographic transition and therefore is still much younger. However, due to the speed with which the fertility rate dropped and life expectancy increased, China ageing process will proceed at a very fast space and around the middle of the...
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011729229
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The Retirement Migration Puzzle in China
Chen, Simiao; Jin, Zhangfeng; Prettner, Klaus - 2020
be attributed to inter-temporal substitution (delayed migration). Retirement-induced migrants are lower-educated and have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012155354
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Retirement, housing mobility, downsizing and neighbourhood quality - A causal investigation
Nguyen, Ha Trong; Mitrou, Francis; Zubrick, Stephen R. - 2021
This paper provides the first causal evidence on the impact of retirement on housing choices. Our empirical strategy exploits the discontinuity in the eligibility ages for state pension as an instrument for the endogenous retirement decision and controls for time-invariant individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585219
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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-generation immigrants in Belgium compared to that of natives. Using detailed quarterly data for the period 2008-2014, we find not only that first-generation immigrants face a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012169105
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International Trade and Labor Market Integration of Immigrants
Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020
We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271915
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The Effects of the 2008 Labour-Migration Reform in Sweden: An Analysis of Income
Irastorza, Nahikari; Emilsson, Henrik - 2020
data to assess the effects of the policy change on non-EU labour migrants' labour-market outcomes, as measured by income …-migration reform had a negative effect on the migrants' annual income. However, this effect became marginal after controlling for …-EU labour migrants. In sum, the new non-selective labour-migration policy lowered labour migrants' mean income by opening the …
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Do Refugees with Better Mental Health Better Integrate? Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia Longitudinal Survey
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Trinh, Trong-Anh; Verme, Paolo - 2021
Hardly any evidence currently exists on the causal effects of mental illness on refugee labor market outcomes. We offer the first study on this topic in the context of Australia, one of the host countries with the largest number of refugees per capita in the world. Analyzing the Building a New...
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Climate Shocks, Migration, and Labor Markets: A Gender Analysis from West Africa
Elmallakh, Nelly; Wodon, Quentin - 2021
s the main migrant receiving country
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