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investigates the effect of migration on various dimensions of elderly health using unique data from Moldova, which has one of the …-reported health. No effects are found on depression and cognitive capacity. We find evidence that these positive outcomes are linked …
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Why would migrant workers in rich countries ever return to poorer countries of origin? In a model of migration and household investment, with borrowing constraints and minimum investment thresholds, return migration occurs for either target-earnings or life-cycle reasons. This paper exploits a...
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families in rural China. This paper asks how participation is affected by elder parent health. We find that younger adults are … less likely to work as migrants when a parent is ill. Poor elder parent health has less impact on the probability of …
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investigates the e ect of migration on various dimensions of elderly health using unique data from Moldova, which has one of the …-reported health. No e ects are found on depression and cognitive capacity. We trace these positive outcomes to an income e ect which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886996
parental health. Results show that elderly parents receive lower time contributions from all of their children when one child … migration on elderly parents. After discussing the identification issues involved in estimation, I review the literature on the … effects of migration on the education and health of non-migrant children as well as the labor supply of non-migrant spouses …
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We study the impact of language deficiency on the health production of childhood migrants to Australia. Our … large negative effect of English deficiency on physical health that is robust to a range of different specifications. In the … upper bounds for the true effect of English deficiency on health of one half and a full standard deviation in the health …
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outcomes than non-Hispanic Whites. This phenomenon is known as the Hispanic Health Paradox. Using data from Mexico and the … United States, we examine several health outcomes for non-Hispanic Whites and Mexicans in the United States and in Mexico and …While typically socioeconomically disadvantaged, Mexican migrants in the United States tend to have better health …
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retirement pensions, is followed by a causal empirical analysis using a panel data set (Mexican Health and Aging Study, MHAS) of …) reduces participation. A better health raises male participation rates, while the health effect is absent for women. The … opposite effect, from labor force participation on health status, is negligible for both genders. Access to health services …
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After a summmary of the theoretical background of their research, the authors report two cases: two families of former agricultural workers in the region of Bordeaux, confronted with the French principle of “obligation alimentaire” [family support duty] towards the elderly : two old ladies,...
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provide to their parents in old age, particularly in families with many children? This paper takes a non-cooperative view of … elderly parents. …
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