A 'Healthy Immigrant Effect' or a 'Sick Immigrant Effect'? Selection and Policies Matter
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- Amelie F. Constant & Teresa García-Muñoz & Shoshana Neuman & Tzahi Neuman, 2018. "A “healthy immigrant effect” or a “sick immigrant effect”? Selection and policies matter," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 19(1), pages 103-121, January.
- Constant, Amelie F. & Garcia-Munoz, Teresa & Neuman, Shoshana & Neuman, Tzahi, 2016. "A 'healthy immigrant effect' or a 'sick immigrant effect'? Selection and policies matter," MERIT Working Papers 2016-051, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
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older population; Israel; Europe; immigration; self-reported health status; multilevel regression; SHARE;All these keywords.
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- C22 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes
- J11 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
- J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
- J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- O52 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Europe
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HEA-2015-09-26 (Health Economics)
- NEP-LTV-2015-09-26 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
- NEP-MIG-2015-09-26 (Economics of Human Migration)
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