ArticleThe Journal of social issues2022
Do Immigrants' Health Advantages Remain After Unemployment? Variations by Race-Ethnicity and Gender.
Article in The Journal of social issues, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Workplace mortality risk and social determinants among migrant workers: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The Lancet. Public health · 2024Pooled it
- Psychological Distress Among US-Born and Non-US-Born Black or African American Adults in the US.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Revisiting the Immigrant Health Advantage: Self-Reported Health and Smoking Among Sexual Minority Immigrants.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2024Article
- Diminished Advantage or Persistent Protection? A New Approach to Assess Immigrants' Mortality Advantages Over Time.Demography · 2022Article
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Abstract
Immigrants tend to display more favorable health outcomes than native-born co-ethnics. At the same time, they face considerable employment instability. It is unclear whether immigrants' job conditions may compromise their health advantage. Using U.S. National Health Interview Survey data, this study shows that the experience of unemployment reduces immigrants' health advantage, but unemployed foreign-born Blacks, White women, and Asian women still have lower mortality rates than their native-born employed counterparts. Overall, unemployment is less detrimental to immigrants than to natives, and immigrants' "survival advantage after unemployment" persists as their duration of residence extends. We further find substantial heterogeneity in the unemployment effect within immigrants. Asian immigrants display a much sharper gender difference in the mortality consequence of unemployment than other immigrants. Asian men's worse general health and substantially higher smoking rate, especially among the unemployed, lead them to fare much worse than Asian women following unemployment.
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