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Being an immigrant is associated with 21% more hospitalisations amongst lower users but with 26% fewer hospitalisations amongst high users.
Again, being an immigrant is associated with a lower employment probability and this disadvantage is attenuated for the second generation.
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In a stepwise multivariate model with mutual adjustment for psychosocial factors, being an immigrant was associated with a more than twofold risk in both sexes.
Another study based on a nationally representative Swedish sample investigating life satisfaction found that having no partner and being a first-generation immigrant were associated with reporting of low levels of satisfaction [ 32].
Increased risk was equal for both first and second generation immigrants, and this finding has led to a growing consensus that the development of psychotic disorders in immigrants is associated with sensitization to environmental stressors related to the post-immigration context [ 4- 8].
At this level, a 10 percentage points increase in the share of immigrants is associated with a 6 percentage points increase in the probability that an immigrant will be contacted.
Unlike our estimations, however, Bartolucci (2014) finds evidence for double-discrimination against female immigrants in Germany (a 10 percentage point increase in female immigrants is associated with a 2.7 % lower average firm wage).
Naturalisation of first-generation immigrants is associated with a certain level of integration, language proficiency and an increased probability of staying in the country.6 It is hypothesised that the acquisition of citizenship serves as a signal for these characteristics.
The estimated correlation is quantitatively significant: an additional 1 percentage point in the fraction of illegal immigrants is associated with a 1 percentage point increase in the propensity to support the Senate plan.
The fixed effects model (column 5) shows a small and significant immigrant wage penalty (a 10 percentage point increase in the share of immigrants is associated with a 0.2 % decrease in the average wage), and the wage coefficient of women is reduced by almost 50%% to −0.09.
Closer examination reveals that the biggest effect of immigration has been on the wages of workers in the semi/unskilled services sector – here a 10 percentage point rise in the proportion of immigrants is associated with a 2.6percentt reduction in pay.
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