In our study, foreign-born patients were more likely to be TB/HIV co-infected and also showed a higher proportion of extra pulmonary disease.
A Duke university study found that foreign born inventors have been credited to about 75percentt of patent applications filed by the top research universities, and another study by Kauffman foundation found that about 25percentt of engineering and technology firms have a foreign born founder.
This study only considers how foreign born individuals respond to minimum wages within the U.S. It is not clear if natives face the same decision as immigrants since we cannot assume mobility ex-ante as we did with immigrants.
One in five new mothers in 2006 was foreign born, the study found, with California having the highest number of foreign-born new mothers.
The first suburbs are also drawing more immigrants than the cities, the historic destination for the foreign born, the study said.
Factors associated with late diagnosis and presentation with advanced HIV disease in our study included older age, being foreign born and having acquired HIV infection through heterosexual contact.
Similarly, Conger (2012) studies the relationship between percent foreign born and high school achievement in Florida.
These studies also found that fathers, foreign born parents and socio-economically disadvantaged groups were perceived as more difficult to reach than other groups [ 20, 21].
Statistics Sweden (2014a, b) studied foreign-born persons aged 20 49 years upon arrival during a 13-year period.
In two earlier studies, foreign-born Asian-Americans had lower survival than those born in the United States (Choe et al, 2005; Chuang et al, 2006).
One study considered both recent migrants and foreign born residents in US for more than 5 years [ 23].
