Are immigrants healthier than native residents?

Artikel

In common anti-immigrant rhetoric, concerns are raised that immigrants bring diseases with them to the host country that threaten the health of the resident population. In reality, extensive empirical research over several decades and across multiple regions and host countries has documented that when immigrants arrive in the host country they are healthier than native residents, a phenomenon termed the "healthy immigrant effect." This initial advantage deteriorates with time spent in the host country, however, and immigrants' health status converges toward (or below) that of native residents.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: IZA World of Labor ; ISSN: 2054-9571 ; Year: 2014 ; Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities ; Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation ; Health Behavior ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Labor Discrimination ; Cultural Economics: Religion
• Thema: immigrants ; natives ; health ; healthy immigrant effect ; selectivity ; acculturation ; self-assessed health status

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Neuman, Shoshana
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2014

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.15185/izawol.108
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/125329
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ