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Imbalanced Effects of the UE-citizenship on Perceived Health: Why Male Immigrants Benefit More?
Marta Pasqualini, Donatella Lanari, Luca Pieroni

##manager.scheduler.building##: Velodromo - Bocconi University
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Date: 2019-01-25 02:00 PM – 03:30 PM
Last modified: 2018-12-26

Abstract


Few research has been conducted on differences in health between immigrant groups and on
assessing the role played by the acquisition of the UE citizenship as a measure of legal status, even if a significant presence of foreign residents in Italy comes from those Eastern European countries that joined the UE in the past decade.
This paper seeks to contribute to the literature by exploring whether the acquisition of the UE
citizenship at the moment of immigration may benefits immigrants’ self-rated health in later life.
Using difference-in-difference causal estimations, we compared self-rated health of immigrants
depending on time of immigration in Italy. Specifically, we identified two groups of analyses that
compare respectively a treated group (composed by immigrants coming from the ”new” UE member
countries in 2004) and a control group (composed by immigrants coming from countries that were
”candidate” UE member countries at that time). Preliminary results show that immigrating in Italy
with the UE-citizenship significantly improved self-rated health in 2009 but only among men.


Keywords


Legal status, Self-rated health, Gender Differences, Migration