Business Cycles, Migration and Health

Timothy Halliday

No 200513, Working Papers from University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper uses data from the PSID to investigate how selective migration affects the relationship between business cycles and health. We show that, among the healthy, migration is used to insure against macroeconomic fluctuations. However, among the unhealthy, there is no relationship between migration and business cycles. In other words, illness erases a person’s ability to use migration to hedge against business cycle fluctuations. This suggests that recessions should induce an out-migration of disproportionately healthy people from economically depressed areas. This implies that - ceterus paribus - mortality and morbidity rates should be counter-cyclical.

JEL-codes: J10 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2005-03-03, Revised 2005-08-05
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Journal Article: Business cycles, migration and health (2007)
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