The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence
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- Amelie F. Constant, 2017. "The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence," ifo DICE Report, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 15(03), pages 20-25, October.
- Constant, Amelie, 2017. "The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence," MERIT Working Papers 2017-044, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
- Constant, Amelie F., 2017. "The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence," GLO Discussion Paper Series 124, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
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Keywords
health status; healthy immigrant paradox; international migration; assimilation; age-cohort-period effects; selection; aging;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I00 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - General - - - General
- I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- J00 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - General
- F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
- J11 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
- J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
- J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HEA-2017-11-05 (Health Economics)
- NEP-INT-2017-11-05 (International Trade)
- NEP-MIG-2017-11-05 (Economics of Human Migration)
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