Background: Even if health status of immigrants constitutes an important public health issue, the literature provides contradictory results on the existence of a ‘healthy migrant' effect in Europe. This study proposes to explore the heterogeneity of the health gap between migrants and natives...

Health in later life is shaped by behavior and policies over the life course and reflects the differences between the societies in which we are ageing. This multidisciplinary book answers questions from all life course phases and its interconnections from a European perspective based on the most...

This paper studies the impact on personal income resulting from the onset of disability. Using the longitudinal Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe, we compare the incomes trajectories of individuals who become disabled and of those remaining in healthy conditions during the same...