Essays about: "Manuel Serrano Alarcon"

Found 1 essay containing the words Manuel Serrano Alarcon.

  1. 1. The Healthy Immigrant Effect (HIE) in the UK.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Manuel Serrano Alarcon; [2015]
    Keywords : native-born; immigration; self-reported health; inequality; Healthy Immigrant Effect; Business and Economics; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The so-called “Healthy Immigrant Effect” (HIE) is based on two complementary hypotheses: i) immigrants who recently arrived to a new country present a better health than the native-born population with similar socio-demographic characteristics; ii) immigrant´s health deteriorates faster than that of the native-born and converges towards native-born levels with the years lived in the host country. This phenomenon has been widely studied for working immigrants in countries who have traditionally received large flows of labour migration as Australia, Canada and the US. READ MORE