Risky Working Conditions: An Immigrant Trap or an Income Effect?

Eva Moreno-Galbis ()
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Eva Moreno-Galbis: Aix-Marseille Univ., CNRS, EHESS, Centrale Marseille, AMSE & Institut Universitaire de France, https://www.amse-aixmarseille.fr/users/moreno-galbis
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No 1908, AMSE Working Papers from Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France

Abstract: Immigrants’ income has been proved to converge to the average native income level with years of residence in the host country. This income assimilation effect is surprisingly not associated with a health improvement. Some emerging studies point towards the role of working conditions as a driver of the counterfactual relation between immigrants’ health and income. Using French data, we first show that, consistently with Viscusi (1978), working conditions are a normal good. An increase in 10% in non-earned income is associated with a decrease by 0.85% in professional injuries and by more than 3.2% in disabilities induced by professional illnesses. Second, we find that while immigrants bear in average worse working conditions than natives, this divergence results from an income divergence effect since for an equivalent non-earned income level there are no significant differences in working conditions between natives and immigrants. Income assimilation of immigrants is associated with an assimilation in working conditions. We conclude then that bad working conditions cannot be blamed for the degradation of immigrants’ health with years of residence in the host country.

Keywords: immigrants; working conditions; income (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A14 J15 J61 J81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 55 pages
Date: 2019-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hea, nep-lab and nep-mig
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