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Has Rural-Urban Migration Promoted the Health of Chinese Migrant Workers?
The relationship between health and migration has always been an important theme in immigration research. This research develops a new approach to test the healthy migrant hypothesis and the salmon bias hypothesis in China by examining an interaction term combining agricultural hukou and migrant sta...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7068351/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32070056 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17041218 |
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author | Long, Cuihong Han, Jiajun Liu, Yong |
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description | The relationship between health and migration has always been an important theme in immigration research. This research develops a new approach to test the healthy migrant hypothesis and the salmon bias hypothesis in China by examining an interaction term combining agricultural hukou and migrant status, non-agricultural employment history, and subsequent area of residence. Based on two Chinese micro-databases, CGSS 2015 and Harmonized CHARLS, we conducted an empirical test on the relationship between migration and health. Our empirical evidence suggests that the initial health advantage among Chinese rural migrant workers was largely due to self-selection rather than migration effects. After controlling for demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, this advantage disappeared. After their health deteriorated, migrant workers returned to their original location. This could exacerbate the contradiction between the allocation of medical resources and the demand in rural and urban China, further intensifying the already widening health status gap between rural and urban residents. |
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spelling | pubmed-70683512020-03-19 Has Rural-Urban Migration Promoted the Health of Chinese Migrant Workers? Long, Cuihong Han, Jiajun Liu, Yong Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The relationship between health and migration has always been an important theme in immigration research. This research develops a new approach to test the healthy migrant hypothesis and the salmon bias hypothesis in China by examining an interaction term combining agricultural hukou and migrant status, non-agricultural employment history, and subsequent area of residence. Based on two Chinese micro-databases, CGSS 2015 and Harmonized CHARLS, we conducted an empirical test on the relationship between migration and health. Our empirical evidence suggests that the initial health advantage among Chinese rural migrant workers was largely due to self-selection rather than migration effects. After controlling for demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, this advantage disappeared. After their health deteriorated, migrant workers returned to their original location. This could exacerbate the contradiction between the allocation of medical resources and the demand in rural and urban China, further intensifying the already widening health status gap between rural and urban residents. MDPI 2020-02-13 2020-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7068351/ /pubmed/32070056 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17041218 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Long, Cuihong Han, Jiajun Liu, Yong Has Rural-Urban Migration Promoted the Health of Chinese Migrant Workers? |
title | Has Rural-Urban Migration Promoted the Health of Chinese Migrant Workers? |
title_full | Has Rural-Urban Migration Promoted the Health of Chinese Migrant Workers? |
title_fullStr | Has Rural-Urban Migration Promoted the Health of Chinese Migrant Workers? |
title_full_unstemmed | Has Rural-Urban Migration Promoted the Health of Chinese Migrant Workers? |
title_short | Has Rural-Urban Migration Promoted the Health of Chinese Migrant Workers? |
title_sort | has rural-urban migration promoted the health of chinese migrant workers? |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7068351/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32070056 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17041218 |
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