 Immigrants and Citizens: Equal in Health?Mohammad Abu-Zaineh ()
Post-Print from HAL Abstract: Upon arrival in Europe, immigrants are generally in better health than native-born citizens. While this may shake up the general idea about migration, it can be explained, according to the researchers, by selection bias. "Being an immigrant comes down to who can," economist Simon Combes pointed out. Leaving one's home country to migrate to another requires a great deal of effort and the physical ability to do so. Furthermore, according to researchers Mathieu Ichou and Matthew Wallace, immigrants are, as a whole, more educated than the rest of the population within their home country.1 Better education paired with better health explains in most cases this "filtering out" of who can migrate in the first place. Differences between immigrants and citizens are therefore able to be determined through use of this "healthy immigration effect." Economists Marwân-al-Qays Bousmah, Simon Combes, and Mohammad Abu-Zaineh came up with the same result after studying more than 100,000 individuals over 50 years old in 19 European countries. Keywords: Immigrants; Health Status; Mental Health; SHARE survey (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in 2020 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05717796 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Post-Print from HAL |
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