​Nativity disparities in labour market, aging, and health

Despite immigrants’ lower socioeconomic status and less access to health care, they tend to have better health along many dimensions.

Project Director: Hui Zheng

In addition to possessing various health advantages, immigrants are known for facing especially challenging work environments and precarious labour market positions. The first part of this project investigates how immigrants’ precarious labour market positions may alter their health advantages, whether job insecurity is equally detrimental to immigrants and the native-born, and which factors may intensify or attenuate the adverse consequences of precarious employment conditions.

The second part of this project examines how the immigrant morbidity and mortality paradox unfolds over the life course. The third part examines the trend of Asian Americans’ morbidity and mortality in the context of increasing heterogeneity within this group.