Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants
Title
Title: The Impact of Late-Life Immigration on the Heath of Elderly Immigrants
Department
Economics Department
College
Seidman College of Business
Date Range
2012-2013
Disciplines
Business
Abstract
We use the New Immigrant Survey (NIS-2003), a nationally representative sample of new legal immigrants to the United States, to investigate the relationship between late-life immigrants health and their immigration process. The immigration process of becoming a legal resident alien in the U.S. for elderly immigrants who are new-comers has been linked with social isolation and depression. This relationship has been examined using relatively small sample sizes and as such researchers were unable to conduct an empirical analysis. This paper fills that gap. Our estimation from logit models indicates that the immigration process is not a determinant of the health status of elderly immigrants. The results also indicate that the countries or regions of origin of the elderly immigrants along with high blood pressure and diabetes play a significant role in late-life immigrants health.
Conference Name
Western Economic Association International
Conference Location
San Francisco, USA
ScholarWorks Citation
Smith Kelly, Claudia and Nota, Fungiasi, "Title: The Impact of Late-Life Immigration on the Heath of Elderly Immigrants" (2013). Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants. 1052.
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/fsdg/1052
