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Retirement and health benefits for Mexican migrant workers returning from the United States

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  • Emma Aguila
  • Julie Zissimopoulos

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In the absence of a bilateral agreement for the portability and totalization of social security contributions between the United States and Mexico, this article examines the access to pension and health insurance benefits and employment status of older Mexican return migrants. We find that return migrants who have spent less than a year in the United States have a similar level of access to social security benefits as non‐migrants. Return migrants who have spent at least a year in the United States are less likely to have public health insurance or social security benefits, and could be more vulnerable to poverty in old age. These results inform the debate on a bilateral social security agreement between the United States and Mexico to improve return migrants' social security.

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  • Emma Aguila & Julie Zissimopoulos, 2013. "Retirement and health benefits for Mexican migrant workers returning from the United States," International Social Security Review, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 66(2), pages 101-125, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:intssr:v:66:y:2013:i:2:p:101-125
    DOI: 10.1111/issr.12014
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    1. Deborah S. DeGraff & Rebeca Wong & Karina Orozco-Rocha, 2018. "Dynamics of Economic Security Among the Aging in Mexico: 2001–2012," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer;Southern Demographic Association (SDA), vol. 37(1), pages 59-90, February.
    2. Joshua Wassink, 2018. "Uninsured migrants: Health insurance coverage and access to care among Mexican return migrants," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 38(17), pages 401-428.
    3. Alma Vega & Noli Brazil, 2015. "A multistate life table approach to understanding return and reentry migration between Mexico and the United States during later life," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 33(43), pages 1211-1240.
    4. Taha, N. & Messkoub, M. & Siegmann, K.A., 2013. "How portable is social security for migrant workers?," ISS Working Papers - General Series 50162, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (ISS), The Hague.

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