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The Effect of Immigration on the Living Arrangements of Elderly Natives

SSRN Electronic Journal
2024
  • 2
    Citations
  • 1,024
    Usage
  • 4
    Captures
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  • Citations
    2
    • Citation Indexes
      2
  • Usage
    1,024
    • Abstract Views
      853
    • Downloads
      171
  • Captures
    4
  • Ratings
    • Download Rank
      350,913

Article Description

Please see the updated paper at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4983115. The elderly overwhelmingly desire to age in place rather than in a nursing home, and the workforce supporting aging in place has a relatively high share of low-skilled immigrants. This paper examines the impact of low-skilled immigration on elderly living arrangements using individual-level data from the 1980–2000 U.S. Censuses. Exploiting the tendency of new immigrants to migrate to existing settlements of immigrants from the same birthplace, we use a two-stage least squares strategy to identify the causal effect of immigration on the living arrangements of elderly natives. We find that a one percentage point increase in low-skilled immigration increases the probability that an elderly native will age in place by 0.04 percentage points and the probability of aging in place with assistance from someone other than a spouse by 0.30 percentage points. This implies that immigration not only induces the elderly to age in place but also shifts those aging in place without support to aging in place with support. Consistent with a migration-induced cost reduction in aging in place, an increase in low-skilled immigration also reduces the wages of all low-skilled workers in private households that support aging in place, both in absolute terms and relative to the wages of all low-skilled workers in nursing homes.

Bibliographic Details

Domininkas Mockus

Elsevier BV

Aging in place; home- and community-based services (HCBS); caregiving; aging; elderly; immigration

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