Self-perceived health among Eastern European immigrants over 50 living in Western Europe.

Objectives: This paper examines whether Eastern European immigrants aged 50 and over living in Northern and Western Europe face a health disadvantage in terms of self-perceived health, with respect to the native-born. We also examined health changes over time (2004-2006-2010) through the probabilities of transition among self-perceived health states, and how they vary according to nativity status and age group.

Methods: Data were obtained from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).

Height convergence and internal migration in mid-twentieth-century Italy.

Height convergence across Italian regions during the second half of the twentieth century is a widely recognized fact. However, it has been suggested that this process was partly affected by the massive migratory flow of people from southern to northern Italy in the 1950s and 1960s, which greatly slowed the height growth rate in the receiving regions, since immigrants were on average shorter than the receiving northern population. The main aims of this study were to estimate the speed of height convergence of Italian military conscripts in the second half of the twentieth century, and to estimate the contribution of internal migration from the south to the north of Italy to height convergence.

[From cultural to labor migration: toward integration of third-world migrants in the Umbrian labor market].

The author describes "recent changes taking place in immigrant communities in [Umbria,] Italy...