Mental Strain of Immigrants in the Working Context

Kevin Claassen and Horst Christoph Broding
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Kevin Claassen: Faculty of Health Department of Human Medicine, Chair of Occupational Medicine and Corporate Health Management, Witten/Herdecke University, Alfred-Herrhausen-Straße 50, 58448 Witten, Germany
Horst Christoph Broding: Faculty of Health Department of Human Medicine, Chair of Occupational Medicine and Corporate Health Management, Witten/Herdecke University, Alfred-Herrhausen-Straße 50, 58448 Witten, Germany

IJERPH, 2019, vol. 16, issue 16, 1-9

Abstract: Inability to work due to reported mental strain and psychiatric disorders is rising in Germany these days. Meanwhile the country’s net migration is positive. While there is empirical evidence for a healthy migrant effect regarding the physical health in the beginning (mostly accompanied by a subsequent convergence effect), the mental health of migrants remains partly understudied. In order to evaluate the migrant’s share in the rise of reported mental strain in Germany, 4000 employees were surveyed by means of an online access panel. About 16 percent of them revealed a migration background. Their Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI) score is slightly yet significantly above the German autochthonous’ one both using bi- and multivariate analysis, indicating that there is a specific vulnerability rather than a healthy migrant effect regarding mental strain at work.

Keywords: public health; migrant health; epidemiology; occupational medicine; mental health; burnout (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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