Do Immigrants' Health Advantages Remain After Unemployment? Variations by Race-Ethnicity and Gender.

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 imm

SUBMITTER: Zheng H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9580995 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature