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Self-selection in physical and mental health among older intra-European migrants
Constant, Amelie; 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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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...
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The labor market integration of refugees and other migrants in Germany
Bedaso, Fenet Jima - 2021
Germany. The existing evidence shows that the economic outcomes of migrants are far behind natives. However, immigrants are a … refugees and other migrants and compare the employment probability gap between refugees, other migrants, and natives. I also … examine whether refugees have a lower employment outcome than other migrants and to what extent the level of education …
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149386
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Immigration and the health of older natives in Western Europe
Escarce, José J.; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2018
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131032
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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/10012156545
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 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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Ageing, the socioeconomic burden, labour market and migration : the Chinese case in an international perspective
Michele, Bruni - 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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Education-occupation mismatch of migrants in the Italian labour market : the effect of social networks
Van Wolleghem, Pierre Georges; De Angelis, Marina; … - 2019
labour market continues to raise concerns. Evidence across countries shows that migrants are more often over-educated than … natives. Over the last years, scholarship has intended to capture the effect of informal networks on migrants’ over …-occupation mismatch is well documented. This article has two objectives: it assesses the extent to which over-education affects migrants …
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