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Age at Migration and Self-Rated Health Trajectories After Age 50: Understanding the Older Immigrant Health Paradox

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  • Zoya Gubernskaya

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Objectives. This research contributes to the "immigrant health paradox" debate by testing the hypothesis that older age at migration is associated with the increased risk of poor health in later life.

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  • Zoya Gubernskaya, 2015. "Age at Migration and Self-Rated Health Trajectories After Age 50: Understanding the Older Immigrant Health Paradox," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 70(2), pages 279-290.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:geronb:v:70:y:2015:i:2:p:279-290.
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    1. Sun, Nan & Yang, Fan, 2021. "Impacts of internal migration experience on health among middle-aged and older adults—Evidence from China," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 284(C).
    2. Nico Vonneilich & Daniel Bremer & Olaf von dem Knesebeck & Daniel Lüdecke, 2021. "Health Patterns among Migrant and Non-Migrant Middle- and Older-Aged Individuals in Europe—Analyses Based on Share 2004–2017," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(22), pages 1-13, November.
    3. Silvia Loi & Peng Li & Mikko Myrskylä, 2022. "At the intersection of adverse life course pathways: the effects on health by nativity," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2022-018, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
    4. Michal Engelman & Bert M. Kestenbaum & Megan L. Zuelsdorff & Neil K. Mehta & Diane S. Lauderdale, 2017. "Work Disability Among Native-born and Foreign-born Americans: On Origins, Health, and Social Safety Nets," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 54(6), pages 2273-2300, December.
    5. Lu, Yao & Denier, Nicole & Wang, Julia Shu-Huah & Kaushal, Neeraj, 2017. "Unhealthy assimilation or persistent health advantage? A longitudinal analysis of immigrant health in the United States," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 195(C), pages 105-114.
    6. Ferrara, Alessandro & Grindel, Carla & Brunori, Claudia, 2024. "A longitudinal perspective to migrant health: Unpacking the immigrant health paradox in Germany," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 351(C).
    7. Zoya Gubernskaya & Zequn Tang, 2017. "Just Like in Their Home Country? A Multinational Perspective on Living Arrangements of Older Immigrants in the United States," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 54(5), pages 1973-1998, October.
    8. Reynolds, Megan M. & Chernenko, Alla & Read, Jen'nan Ghazal, 2016. "Region of origin diversity in immigrant health: Moving beyond the Mexican case," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 166(C), pages 102-109.
    9. Mara Sheftel & Frank W. Heiland, 2018. "Disability crossover: Is there a Hispanic immigrant health advantage that reverses from working to old age?," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 39(7), pages 209-250.

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