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Title: | New Evidence on the Healthy Immigrant Effect |
Author: | Farré, Lídia |
Keywords: | Emigració i immigració Indicadors de salut Indicadors socials Condició física Equador Selecció natural Emigration and immigration Health status indicators Social indicators Physical fitness Ecuador Natural selection |
Issue Date: | Apr-2016 |
Publisher: | Springer Verlag |
Abstract: | This paper presents new evidence that immigrants have better health than natives upon arrival to their destination. It analyzes a very interesting episode in international migration, namely the exodus of Ecuadorians in the aftermath of the economic collapse in the late 1990s. More than 600,000 Ecuadorians from 1999 to 2005 left their homeland, most relocating in Spain. Using information from the birth certificate data, the paper compares the birth outcomes of immigrant women in Spain not only to that of natives at destination, but to that of natives in Ecuador and immigrants from other nationalities in Spain. These comparisons suggest that the better health at birth of children born to immigrants from Ecuador partly responds to the selection of healthier women into migration. |
Note: | Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-015-0578-4 |
It is part of: | Journal of Population Economics, 2016, vol. 29, num. 2, p. 365-394 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/105522 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-015-0578-4 |
ISSN: | 0933-1433 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Econometria, Estadística i Economia Aplicada) |
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