Halliday, Timothy J.; Kimmitt, Michael - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2007
We investigate the proposition that the health of migrants does not constitute a random sample of the health of the … is crucial, as it enables us to observe geographic mobility as well as the health of the migrant prior to migration. We … find that, for men and women below 60 years of age, a move from the middle to the bottom of the health distribution reduces …