In Search of the Healthy Immigrant Effect in Four West European Countries
The present research examines whether the ‘healthy immigrant effect’ thesis observed in the American context prevails also in the West European context. According to this thesis, immigrants are likely to be healthier than comparable nativeborn. Data for the analysis are obtained from the Generations and Gender Survey for the following countries: Austria, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. Ordered logit regression models are estimated to compare the health of immigrants with the native-born population. The findings reveal that in all countries, immigrants tend to report poorer health than co... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
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Schlagwörter: | Sozialwissenschaften / Soziologie / Social sciences / sociology / anthropology / Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) (wave 1 / 2002-2009) / healthy immigrant effect / Migration / Sociology of Migration / Gesundheitszustand / Inländer / Migrant / Österreich / Frankreich / Bundesrepublik Deutschland / Niederlande / USA / Westeuropa / internationaler Vergleich / Generation / health status / native citizen / Austria / France / Federal Republic of Germany / Netherlands / United States of America / Western Europe / international comparison |
Sprache: | unknown |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27204683 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/67066 |