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Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
Published in: Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health 3/2010

01-06-2010 | Original Paper

Health and Humanitarian Migrants’ Economic Participation

Author: Siew-Ean Khoo

Published in: Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health | Issue 3/2010

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Abstract

Refugees and immigrants being resettled in Australia on humanitarian grounds are known to have poorer health than other immigrants. Using data from the Longitudinal Surveys of Immigrants to Australia, the paper examines the influence of three measures of health—self-reported health status, the presence of a long-term health condition and mental health status—on the economic participation of humanitarian migrants. Multivariate logistic regression is used to control for other factors known to affect immigrants’ economic participation, such as age, skills and English language proficiency, to see if health has an independent effect. The results show that migrants with poor physical health are less likely than migrants with good health to be in the work force. Mental health status affects the economic participation of male but not female migrants. The findings provide important empirical evidence of the significant role of health in the economic integration of migrants of refugee background.
Footnotes
1
Migration of New Zealand citizens to Australia does not require a visa under the Trans-Tasman Agreement between the two countries and forms a fourth component.
 
2
The sample was selected to achieve a 2.5% absolute standard error for each visa category and a 7% absolute standard error for each region or country of birth.
 
3
Each individual record file has a weight variable attached to it. This variable indicates the number of migrants with the stratified characteristics that are represented by the individual respondent. In the data analysis, the individual record is multiplied by the weight variable so that the findings apply to the migrant population represented by this individual respondent.
 
4
Humanitarian migrants were oversampled in the second cohort to allow for sufficient numbers for data analysis.
 
5
The questionnaire did not define stress problems, so it as left to the migrants to decide themselves if they had this health condition.
 
6
Based on analyses of variance and the F-test.
 
7
The unemployment rate is usually defined as the percentage of people in the labor force who are unemployed. The labor force is made up of those who are employed and those who are unemployed.
 
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Metadata
Title
Health and Humanitarian Migrants’ Economic Participation
Author
Siew-Ean Khoo
Publication date
01-06-2010
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health / Issue 3/2010
Print ISSN: 1557-1912
Electronic ISSN: 1557-1920
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-007-9098-y

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