Absence Due to Sickness Among Female Immigrants: Disadvantages Over the Career?

Elisabeth Ugreninov ()
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Elisabeth Ugreninov: Oslo Metropolitan University, OsloMet – storbyuniversitetet

Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2023, vol. 24, issue 3, No 23, 1455-1475

Abstract: Abstract The extent to which and where immigrants’ health may deteriorate in the integration process is less understood. This study extends the current knowledge by focusing on sickness absence in Norway among female immigrants working within eight occupations where few formal skills are required. Administrative register data with a total sample of 261,291 native women and 9251 female refugees or families reunited are used to examine the native-immigrant gap in absence due to sickness during a 10-year period. The main findings are that female immigrants are less likely to have at least one sickness absence spell compared to natives, and that the native-immigrant gap in sickness absence was rather stabile when the number of years worked in these occupations was considered. This study shows that immigrants follow the same pattern as natives and suggests that the native-immigrant gap in absence due to health should be nuanced and focus more on why several years in these occupations increase the probability of sickness absence, independent of country of origin.

Keywords: Employment; Female immigrants; Labour market integration; Sickness absence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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